2017 Global Hunger Index Data

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dc.creatorInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.creatorWelthungerhilfe
dc.creatorConcern Worldwide
dc.date2017
dc.date2024-06-04T09:44:02Z
dc.date2024-06-04T09:44:02Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:46:40Z
dc.descriptionThe Global Hunger Index (GHI) is a tool designed to comprehensively measure and track hunger globally, regionally, and by country. Each year, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) calculates GHI scores in order to assess progress, or the lack thereof, in decreasing hunger. The GHI is designed to raise awareness and understanding of regional and country differences in the struggle against hunger. Since 2015, GHI scores have been calculated using a revised and improved formula. The revision replaces child underweight, previously the sole indicator of child undernutrition, with two indicators of child undernutrition—child wasting and child stunting—which are equally weighted in the GHI calculation. The revised formula also standardizes each of the component indicators to balance their contribution to the overall index and to changes in the GHI scores over time. The 2017 GHI has been calculated for 119 countries for which data on the four component indicators are a
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/144253
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/114330
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.3945/jn.116.243949
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceInternational Food Policy Research Institute; Welthungerhilfe (WHH); Concern Worldwide. 2017. 2017 Global Hunger Index Data. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZTCWYQ. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.
dc.subjectundernutrition
dc.subjectindicators
dc.subjectstunting
dc.subjectmalnutrition
dc.subjectnutrition
dc.subjectchildren
dc.subjectdeveloping countries
dc.subjectwasting disease (nutritional disorder)
dc.title2017 Global Hunger Index Data
dc.typeDataset

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