Global Hunger Index 2025
Concern Worldwide, Welthungerhilfe, IFHV · Published 15 October 2025
Latest edition: 15 October 2025 · Next expected: October 2027
This ranking is questionable. Wasting is carried from an older survey round and undernourishment is modeled, not counted, while the processing code and microdata stay unpublished.
What the report claims
The Global Hunger Index combines four indicators into a single score: undernourishment carries one-third of the weight, child mortality one-third, and child stunting and wasting one-sixth each. India ranks 102nd of 123 with a score of 25.8, rated Serious, up from 105th in 2024. Child wasting stands at 18.7 percent, the second-highest in the index. The weights, caps, and standardisation thresholds are published, and the inputs trace to FAO, UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank series.
The Credibility Score, dimension by dimension
- Methodology transparency / replicability
- 13 / 20
- Source verifiability + measurement integrity
- 10 / 25
- Internal consistency of India’s place
- 8 / 20
- Construct validity / India coverage
- 4 / 10
- Independence and funding
- 7 / 20
- Accountability (corrections, versioning)
- 2 / 5
Funding and independence: Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe, with the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at Ruhr University Bochum, publish the index. Both NGOs disclose audited annual accounts and institutional donors, and a large share of their income is government and institutional grants, including Irish Aid and German federal development funds, plus public donations. They state an explicit advocacy mission on hunger and poverty, this edition publishes no amounts spent on the report and no review board separate from the publishers, and the public record of accountability is mainly replies to criticism and the documented 2015 formula change.
Sources: Concern Worldwide, Welthungerhilfe, IFHV, Global Hunger Index 2025
Updated 9 November 2026