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    SDG 2 is 'slipping away,' global hunger index shows

    The 2020 Global Hunger Index finds 51 countries that have levels of hunger that are serious or alarming with 10 years left to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals.

    By Teresa Welsh // 12 October 2020

    WASHINGTON — Eleven countries have alarming levels of hunger while a further 40 have serious levels, according to the 2020 Global Hunger Index.

    The index, an annual look at levels of hunger around the world, ranks countries on a 100 point scale with a score of zero meaning there is no hunger. The index’s severity scale categorizes countries into five groups across the scale: low, moderate, serious, alarming, and extremely alarming levels of hunger.

    While average global hunger levels are moderate — scoring between 10 and 19.9 — almost 690 million people in the world are undernourished. This includes 144 million stunted children and 47 million wasted children. In 2018, 5.3 million children died before they turned 5 years old.

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