Georgia ranks 39th in Global Hunger Index, is behind all its neighbors

Georgia has ranked 39th among 177 countries in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) with a score of 9.2, which means that the country suffers from a level of hunger that is low.

In the index, which measures and tracks hunger globally, Georgia shows lower scores than neighbours as Armenia ranked 30th, Azerbaijan 29th, Russia 22nd and Turkey among top 17. 

GHI is published annually by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe companies. 

GHI says its scores are calculated using a three-step process that draws on available data from various sources to capture the multidimensional nature of hunger.

First, for each country, values are determined for four indicators:

• Undernourishment : the share of the population that is undernourished (that is, whose caloric intake is insufficient).
• Child wasting: the share of children under the age of five who are wasted (that is, who have low weight for their height, reflecting acute undernutrition).
• Child stunting : the share of children under the age of five who are stunted (that is, who have low height for their age, reflecting chronic undernutrition).and
• Child mortality: the mortality rate of children under the age of five (in part, a reflection of the fatal mix of inadequate nutrition and unhealthy environments).

Several of the countries with best results in the index. 

Second, each of the four component indicators is given a standardized score on a 100-point scale based on the highest observed level for the indicator on a global scale in recent decades.

Third, standardised scores are aggregated to calculate the GHI score for each country, with each of the three dimensions (inadequate food supply; child mortality; and child undernutrition, which is composed equally of child stunting and child wasting) given equal weight (the formula for calculating.