Lucy Westcott of Newsweek wrote a story about the 2016 Global Hunger Index that examined the countries with the world levels of hunger. “Chad and the Central African Republic have the highest levels of hunger in this year’s index, in addition to some of the lowest percentages of hunger reduction in the past two decades, according to the report,” Westcott wrote. “In the Central African Republic, 48 percent of the population is undernourished, while that number is 34 percent in Chad.”
The 2016 GHI found that though hunger levels in developing countries have fallen almost 30 percent since 2000, more than 45 countries including India, Pakistan, Haiti, Yemen, and Afghanistan will still have “moderate” to “alarming” hunger scores by the United Nations deadline to end hunger by 2030.