World Food Day: Global Hunger Index 2008

For World Food Day, IFPRI in conjunction with Welthungerhife and Concern Worldwide have published the Global Hunger Index. It shows that;

...thirty-three countries around the world have alarming or extremely alarming levels of hunger, according to the 2008 Global Hunger Index. The Democratic Republic of Congo scored the worst on the Index, followed by Eritrea, Burundi, Niger, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ethiopia.

The Index ranks countries according to the prevalence of child malnutrition, rates of child mortality, and the proportion of people who are calorie deficient.