India stood in 107th position in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) 2022 of 121 countries. In 2021, the country occupied 101st place. Seventeen countries, including China, Turkey, and Kuwait, shared the top spot with GHI scores of less than five, according to the Global Hunger Index website, which tracks hunger and malnutrition.

The report was prepared jointly by Irish aid agency Concern Worldwide and German organisation Welt Hunger Hilfe. In 2021, India was at 101 out of 116 countries. Now with 121 countries in the list, India has slipped to 107th rank. In 2000, the GHI score of India was 38.8 and it was 28.2 - 29.1 between 2014 and 2022.

In 2021, after the report has come, the government had released a statement that reads, "It is shocking to find that the Global Hunger Report 2021 has lowered the rank of India on the basis of FAO (UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation) estimate on proportion of undernourished population, which is found to be devoid of ground reality and facts and suffers from serious methodological issues. The publishing agencies of the Global Hunger Report, Concern Worldwide and Welt Hunger Hilfe, have not done their due diligence before releasing the report," the government had said in a statement.

"The methodology used by FAO is unscientific. They have based their assessment on the results of a 'four question' opinion poll, which was conducted telephonically by Gallup. There is no scientific methodology to measure undernourishment like availability of food grains per capita during the period. The scientific measurement of undernourishment would require measurement of weight and height, whereas the methodology involved here is based on Gallup poll based on pure telephonic estimate of the population," it had said.