A Quarter of the World's Hungry People Reside in India!

Bangalore: India is often distinguished as the most populous democracy in the world, but it is very much responsible for its sky-high number of hunger-struck people. The number of hungry people in the world was estimated at 842 million in 2011-13 by the Global Hunger Index (GHI) report and India holds about a quarter of the worlds hungry, i.e. 210 million, reports Subodh Varma for The Times of India.

Though the number of starving people appears to decline from the 870 million estimated in 2010-12, the new GHI report says that it is because of recalculation of undernourished people by the UN-linked Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The number of undernourished people has not altered since 2006, but their ratio to the total world population has declined because of the fast growing number of the world’s populace. This year’s GHI is calculated for 120 countries where the hunger levels are most significant. The report is based on the data for three prime categories.

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