2000, 2006,

2005, 2012,
2010, AND 2020
2019 GLOBAL
GLOBAL HUNGER
HUNGER INDEX
INDEX SCORES,
SCORES, AND
AND CHANGE
CHANGE SINCE
SINCE 2000
2000
E
A Country 2000 2006 2012 2020
Absolute
change since
% change
since Country 2000 2006 2012 2020
Absolute
change since
% change
since
with data from '98–'02 '04–'08 '10–'14 '15–'19 2000 2000 with data from '98–'02 '04–'08 '10–'14 '15–'19 2000 2000

Afghanistan 51.0 42.8 33.8 30.3 -20.7 -40.6 Latvia 7.0 <5 <5 <5 — —
Albania 20.7 15.8 8.5 5.9 -14.8 -71.5 Lebanon 11.6 13.3 12.4 8.9 -2.7 -23.3
Algeria 14.5 11.7 9.0 9.0 -5.5 -37.9 Lesotho 36.0 30.4 24.6 30.7 -5.3 -14.7
Angola 64.9 47.0 35.9 26.8 -38.1 -58.7 Liberia 48.0 40.0 33.1 31.4 -16.6 -34.6
Argentina 6.3 5.6 5.2 5.3 -1.0 -15.9 Libya — — — — — —
Armenia 19.4 13.4 10.4 6.9 -12.5 -64.4 Lithuania 6.1 <5 <5 <5 — —
Azerbaijan 25.0 16.0 10.6 6.0 -19.0 -76.0 Madagascar 42.7 41.4 34.6 36.0 -6.7 -15.7
Bahrain — — — — — — Malawi 43.2 33.8 27.1 22.6 -20.6 -47.7
Bangladesh 34.1 29.0 27.8 20.4 -13.7 -40.2 Malaysia 15.5 13.3 11.8 13.3 -2.2 -14.2
Belarus <5 <5 <5 <5 — — Mali 41.9 37.0 31.3 22.9 -19.0 -45.3
Benin 34.1 28.7 24.2 22.4 -11.7 -34.3 Mauritania 32.0 29.0 23.7 24.0 -8.0 -25.0
Bhutan — — — — — — Mauritius 15.0 13.6 12.3 9.3 -5.7 -38.0
Bolivia (Plurinat. State of) 27.6 23.2 16.8 14.0 -13.6 -49.3 Mexico 10.1 8.4 7.4 7.7 -2.4 -23.8
Bosnia & Herzegovina 9.3 6.7 <5 <5 — — Moldova (Rep. of) — — — — — —
Botswana 28.2 27.3 22.4 22.6 -5.6 -19.9 Mongolia 30.1 23.1 12.7 13.1 -17.0 -56.5
Brazil 11.3 6.3 <5 <5 — — Montenegro — 5.5 <5 <5 — —
Bulgaria 8.2 7.3 7.8 5.5 -2.7 -32.9 Morocco 15.5 17.5 9.6 8.9 -6.6 -42.6
Burkina Faso 45.7 46.3 31.1 25.8 -19.9 -43.5 Mozambique 48.1 38.4 31.4 33.1 -15.0 -31.2
Burundi — — — — — — Myanmar 39.8 31.8 23.3 20.9 -18.9 -47.5
Cambodia 41.2 27.2 24.9 20.6 -20.6 -50.0 Namibia 25.3 24.7 23.9 19.1 -6.2 -24.5
Cameroon 36.4 31.0 23.2 19.1 -17.3 -47.5 Nepal 37.4 31.0 22.8 19.5 -17.9 -47.9
Central African Republic — — — — — — Nicaragua 22.3 17.1 14.6 13.2 -9.1 -40.8
Chad 50.9 51.3 47.9 44.7 -6.2 -12.2 Niger — — — — — —
Chile <5 <5 <5 <5 — — Nigeria 40.6 34.1 32.0 29.2 -11.4 -28.1
China 13.6 9.5 <5 <5 — — North Macedonia 7.5 7.7 6.7 5.2 -2.3 -30.7
Colombia 10.9 11.5 9.1 7.5 -3.4 -31.2 Oman 14.8 16.0 11.6 12.2 -2.6 -17.6
Comoros — — — — — — Pakistan 37.2 33.5 32.8 24.6 -12.6 -33.9
Congo (Republic of) 33.8 34.7 27.8 26.0 -7.8 -23.1 Panama 18.5 15.0 9.8 7.2 -11.3 -61.1
Costa Rica 6.1 <5 <5 <5 — — Papua New Guinea — — — — — —
Côte d'Ivoire 33.6 34.7 30.1 24.5 -9.1 -27.1 Paraguay 12.1 11.6 9.6 7.5 -4.6 -38.0
Croatia <5 <5 <5 <5 — — Peru 20.8 16.5 8.9 7.3 -13.5 -64.9
Cuba <5 <5 <5 <5 — — Philippines 25.0 20.4 20.4 19.0 -6.0 -24.0
Dem. Rep. of the Congo — — — — — — Qatar — — — — — —
Djibouti — — — — — — Romania 8.0 5.5 <5 <5 — —
Dominican Republic 15.2 13.9 10.3 7.1 -8.1 -53.3 Russian Federation 10.0 6.8 6.0 5.2 -4.8 -48.0
Ecuador 19.7 19.0 16.3 11.0 -8.7 -44.2 Rwanda 49.7 38.1 26.0 28.3 -21.4 -43.1
Egypt 16.4 14.4 15.3 11.9 -4.5 -27.4 Saudi Arabia 11.1 12.2 8.2 7.5 -3.6 -32.4
El Salvador 14.7 12.1 10.4 10.5 -4.2 -28.6 Senegal 34.3 24.4 18.0 17.1 -17.2 -50.1
Equatorial Guinea — — — — — — Serbia — 6.1 5.3 6.6 — —
Eritrea — — — — — — Sierra Leone 58.3 53.3 42.4 30.9 -27.4 -47.0
Estonia 5.9 <5 <5 <5 — — Slovakia 6.5 5.9 <5 6.4 -0.1 -1.5
Eswatini 26.1 24.1 17.8 20.3 -5.8 -22.2 Somalia — — — — — —
Ethiopia 53.7 43.6 35.5 26.2 -27.5 -51.2 South Africa 18.4 19.4 15.3 13.5 -4.9 -26.6
Fiji 9.6 9.1 8.1 8.0 -1.6 -16.7 South Sudan — — — — — —
Gabon 21.1 20.4 18.8 18.2 -2.9 -13.7 Sri Lanka 21.9 19.5 20.1 16.3 -5.6 -25.6
Gambia 29.2 28.0 22.7 17.8 -11.4 -39.0 Sudan — — 32.5 27.2 — —
Georgia 12.3 8.9 <5 6.1 -6.2 -50.4 Suriname 15.5 11.7 10.5 10.2 -5.3 -34.2
Ghana 28.5 22.2 17.9 15.2 -13.3 -46.7 Syrian Arab Republic — — — — — —
Guatemala 28.5 24.6 22.2 20.7 -7.8 -27.4 Tajikistan — — — — — —
Guinea — — — — — — Tanzania (United Rep. of) 40.8 33.6 30.0 25.0 -15.8 -38.7
Guinea-Bissau — — — — — — Thailand 17.8 12.3 12.7 10.2 -7.6 -42.7
Guyana 17.3 15.8 12.2 11.1 -6.2 -35.8 Timor-Leste — 46.1 36.2 37.6 — —
Haiti 41.9 43.6 35.9 33.5 -8.4 -20.0 Togo 39.3 36.7 26.6 24.1 -15.2 -38.7
Honduras 21.9 19.7 16.9 13.1 -8.8 -40.2 Trinidad & Tobago 11.1 11.4 10.8 6.6 -4.5 -40.5
India 38.9 37.5 29.3 27.2 -11.7 -30.1 Tunisia 10.3 7.8 7.0 5.7 -4.6 -44.7
Indonesia 26.1 29.5 23.1 19.1 -7.0 -26.8 Turkey 10.1 6.3 <5 <5 — —
Iran (Islamic Republic of) 13.5 8.9 7.6 7.9 -5.6 -41.5 Turkmenistan 21.2 16.6 13.6 11.1 -10.1 -47.6
Iraq 24.0 24.0 21.1 17.1 -6.9 -28.8 Uganda — — — — — —
Jamaica 8.6 9.0 9.2 8.1 -0.5 -5.8 Ukraine 13.0 <5 <5 <5 — —
Jordan 10.8 8.1 8.6 8.8 -2.0 -18.5 Uruguay 7.5 6.8 5.0 <5 — —
Kazakhstan 11.4 12.3 8.1 5.4 -6.0 -52.6 Uzbekistan 24.4 16.9 12.7 6.7 -17.7 -72.5
Kenya 37.4 31.4 23.2 23.7 -13.7 -36.6 Venezuela (Boliv. Rep. of) 14.7 11.2 7.6 23.5 8.8 59.9
Korea (DPR) 39.5 33.1 28.2 27.5 -12.0 -30.4 Viet Nam 26.3 21.9 16.5 13.6 -12.7 -48.3
Kuwait <5 <5 <5 <5 — — Yemen — — — — — —
Kyrgyzstan 18.4 13.9 11.7 8.4 -10.0 -54.3 Zambia — — — — — —
Lao PDR — — — — — — Zimbabwe — — — — — —
Note: — = Data are not available or not presented. See Box 1.3 for provisional designations of the severity of hunger for some countries with incomplete data. Some countries did not exist in
their present borders in the given year or reference period. = low, = moderate, = serious, = alarming, = extremely alarming.

2000, 2006, 2012, and 2020 Global Hunger Index Scores | Appendix E | 2020 Global Hunger Index