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Global Hunger Index 2026: Rankings, Scores & Country Data

Note: This 2026 Global Hunger Index report supersedes all former GHI results. As always, rankings and index scores from this year cannot be accurately compared to rankings and index scores from previous reports. The 2000, 2006, 2012, 2018, and 2026 scores and indicator data contained within this table and the 2026 report are currently the only data that can be used for valid comparisons of the GHI over time (see Methodology).

Rank in 2026	Country	2000	2006	2012	2018	2026
1-24	Armenia	20.3	14.4	7.8	6.2	2.5<5.0
1-24	Belarus	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Bosnia & Herzegovina	9.5	6.3	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Bulgaria	8.7	8.5	7.5	5.8	2.5<5.0
1-24	Chile	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	China	13.8	9.1	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Costa Rica	5.8	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Croatia	7.4	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Estonia	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Georgia	11.7	9.2	7.1	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Hungary	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Kuwait	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Latvia	5.4	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Lithuania	5.5	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Montenegro	99.0 —	6.5	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	North Macedonia	7.4	6.9	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Paraguay	12.8	9.7	6.9	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Romania	8.1	6.4	5.2	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Russian Federation	10.5	6.7	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Serbia	99.0 —	5.9	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Türkiye	22.1	11.6	5.4	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	United Arab Emirates	2.5<5.0	5.2	5.2	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Uruguay	7.9	5.7	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0	2.5<5.0
1-24	Uzbekistan	25.6	15.4	8.5	5.2	2.5<5.0
25	Moldova (Rep. of)	18.3	18.9	6.4	5.4	5.0
26	Mongolia	29.5	21.2	11.1	6.7	5.3
27	Argentina	6.5	5.4	5.4	5.5	5.5
27	Azerbaijan	25.3	15.5	10.6	7.1	5.5
27	Brazil	11.7	7.0	5.5	5.7	5.5
30	Dominican Republic	15.2	14.3	11.0	8.3	5.9
31	Kazakhstan	11.9	13.0	8.8	6.1	6.0
31	Tunisia	9.0	8.1	6.8	5.9	6.0
33	Colombia	10.7	11.2	8.7	6.7	6.1
33	Saudi Arabia	10.5	12.5	8.1	6.3	6.1
35	Mexico	9.7	9.4	7.4	6.8	6.2
36	Peru	21.1	15.6	9.5	7.2	6.5
37	Guyana	17.0	15.8	14.0	10.2	6.8
38	Cabo Verde	16.0	13.2	12.2	8.4	6.9
39	El Salvador	13.6	12.2	10.0	7.2	7.0
40	Albania	15.2	15.7	9.5	6.2	7.1
41	Iran (Islamic Republic of)	12.4	9.8	9.1	8.3	7.2
41	Panama	17.3	13.4	10.3	8.1	7.2
43	Algeria	14.1	11.9	9.1	7.1	7.5
44	Jamaica	8.3	8.4	8.3	7.8	7.8
45	Kyrgyzstan	18.5	14.0	10.7	8.2	7.9
46	Venezuela (Boliv. Rep. of)	14.3	11.0	7.1	16.7	8.9
47	Morocco	15.7	16.4	9.4	8.2	9.0
48	Jordan	10.2	7.6	8.5	9.5	9.4
48	Lebanon	11.0	11.4	7.0	7.2	9.4
48	Turkmenistan	19.8	15.3	11.7	9.9	9.4
48.1*	Slovakia	99.0 —	99.0 —	99.0 —	99.0 —	9.9<= 9.9^*
51	Thailand	17.2	12.5	12.2	11.4	10.0
51	Fiji	9.2	9.5	10.4	9.6	10.0
53	Sri Lanka	22.1	19.9	20.8	11.4	10.2
54	Ecuador	19.1	16.4	12.3	11.6	10.3
55	Egypt	16.5	14.6	16.0	11.6	10.5
55	Trinidad & Tobago	11.2	11.6	10.3	9.1	10.5
57	Oman	16.2	12.0	10.7	11.8	10.8
58	Vietnam	24.2	22.1	15.6	12.9	11.2
59	Suriname	14.8	11.0	10.5	10.8	11.4
60	Ukraine	12.8	10.8	9.7	9.8	11.6
61	Iraq	22.9	20.1	17.2	13.5	11.9
62	Honduras	21.7	17.6	13.5	12.9	12.3
63	Tajikistan	39.2	31.8	24.2	14.9	12.7
64	Libya	11.9	14.6	17.0	12.9	12.9
65	Ghana	29.0	22.1	17.7	15.5	13.0
66	Mauritius	15.1	13.8	13.3	12.5	13.2
67	Philippines	23.9	22.2	20.1	15.3	13.5
68	Malaysia	15.1	13.9	12.8	12.3	13.6
69	Bolivia (Plurinat. State of)	26.6	23.0	16.2	12.2	14.2
70	Cambodia	39.8	26.8	21.3	15.2	14.3
71	Indonesia	25.0	28.8	22.5	17.0	14.4
72	Myanmar	41.4	29.8	20.3	16.2	14.5
72	Nepal	37.0	30.8	24.4	18.4	14.5
74	Senegal	32.5	23.6	19.5	16.2	15.4
74	South Africa	16.7	17.8	13.2	13.1	15.4
76	Eswatini	24.3	25.7	22.8	17.6	16.1
77	Cameroon	36.8	29.4	22.2	19.4	16.9
78	Comoros	35.7	27.7	25.1	19.0	17.6
78	Togo	37.4	29.4	25.9	24.3	17.6
80	Gabon	19.8	19.4	16.3	16.5	18.0
81	Guatemala	29.0	24.9	21.5	19.8	18.3
82	Gambia	29.4	25.1	21.0	19.3	18.4
83	Botswana	29.8	27.8	23.3	21.1	18.7
84	Bangladesh	34.6	30.0	27.3	20.0	19.2
84.2*	Nicaragua	21.3	17.2	14.3	12.1	10.010-19.9^*
85	Lao PDR	43.8	29.5	21.5	20.1	20.0
86	Côte d'Ivoire	32.8	34.1	26.4	21.0	20.2
87	Tanzania (United Rep. of)	40.3	31.8	26.8	23.9	20.4
88	Mali	40.6	36.0	27.1	22.4	20.5
88	Uganda	35.8	30.5	25.1	28.7	20.7
90	Mauritania	31.3	25.3	20.1	19.3	20.8
91	Congo (Republic of)	35.3	31.8	29.0	24.9	20.9
92	Rwanda	49.6	35.7	27.0	26.7	21.0
93	Burkina Faso	44.3	36.4	30.3	25.1	22.1
94	Guinea	36.9	34.2	28.6	26.7	22.3
94	Zimbabwe	35.6	32.5	27.8	25.9	22.3
96	Djibouti	41.4	35.3	28.1	22.7	22.5
97	Namibia	26.6	26.5	24.2	21.7	22.9
98	Solomon Islands	18.7	18.5	21.7	21.2	23.4
99	Guinea-Bissau	37.7	29.8	28.3	23.1	23.9
100	Ethiopia	53.0	42.3	31.2	24.9	24.1
100	India	38.1	37.0	28.8	25.8	24.1
102	Angola	61.7	39.1	23.2	24.0	24.3
102	Benin	32.1	27.3	24.6	24.0	24.3
104	Malawi	43.1	32.7	24.9	21.9	24.9
105	Kenya	35.6	29.8	23.4	23.4	25.0
106	Pakistan	36.2	32.9	31.6	24.0	25.5
107	Mozambique	46.9	36.3	30.8	31.6	25.9
108	Afghanistan	49.8	38.1	31.5	28.4	28.6
109	Sierra Leone	57.7	47.2	33.8	32.3	28.7
110	Zambia	51.1	43.8	36.8	28.7	30.7
111	Papua New Guinea	31.4	30.8	36.4	31.4	31.5
111	Syrian Arab Republic	14.8	17.1	19.2	28.0	31.5
113	Liberia	48.0	40.8	36.0	32.4	32.3
114	Timor-Leste	99.0 —	44.1	30.0	27.3	32.5
115	Central African Republic	46.8	44.4	37.1	34.5	33.1
116	Niger	52.7	40.9	38.1	34.4	34.1
117	Nigeria	37.3	32.5	31.0	28.2	34.3
118	Haiti	40.1	39.3	31.7	30.4	34.4
118.3*	Korea (DPR)	43.8	32.6	29.0	27.4	20.020-34.9^*
118.4*	Lesotho	99.0 —	99.0 —	99.0 —	99.0 —	20.020-34.9^*
119	Madagascar	41.9	39.2	33.6	35.7	36.5
120	Chad	49.5	46.2	41.0	38.5	38.0
121	Dem. Rep. of the Congo	48.5	39.3	37.3	36.6	39.5
122	Somalia	64.4	60.8	59.6	51.1	47.0
122.5*	Sudan	99.0 —	99.0 —	99.0 —	26.0	35.035-49.9^*
122.6*	Burundi, South Sudan and Yemen	99.0 —	99.0 —	99.0 —	99.0 —	35.035-49.9^*

Note: For the 2026 GHI report, data were assessed for 136 countries. Out of these, there were sufficient data to calculate 2026 GHI scores for and rank 122 countries (by way of comparison, 123 countries were ranked in the 2025 report).

* For 14 countries, individual scores could not be calculated and ranks could not be determined owing to lack of data. Where possible, these countries were provisionally designated by severity: 1 as low, 1 as moderate, 2 as serious and 4 as alarming. For 6 countries, provisional designations could not be established (see Provisional Hunger Severity Designations).

— = Data are not available or not presented. Some countries did not exist in their present borders in the given year or reference period.

¹ Ranked according to 2026 GHI scores. Countries that have identical 2026 scores are given the same ranking (for example, Argentina, Azerbaijan, and Brazil are all ranked 27^th).

² The 24 countries with 2026 GHI scores of less than 5 are not assigned individual ranks, but rather are collectively ranked 1-24. Differences between their scores are minimal.

Browse countries according to their 2026 GHI severity classification. Dashed borders indicate provisional severity designations.

After nearly two decades of substantial improvement, global hunger has worsened compared with 2018—amid multiple overlapping crises. The 2026 GHI score of 18.1, considered moderate, is higher than the 2018 score of 17.6, marking an interruption in the long-term downward trend recorded since 2000, when the score stood at 28.2, considered serious

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Improving

GHI score declined by at least 5 percent since 2018.

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Little / no change

Among countries with 2026 GHI scores above 5.0, the GHI score declined by less than 5 percent or was unchanged.

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Worsening

GHI score has increased since 2018.

Progress is increasingly fragile and remains uneven across regions. Hunger remains highest in Africa South of the Sahara and South Asia.

Each country’s GHI score is calculated based on a formula that combines four indicators that together capture the multi-dimensional nature of hunger. Bar lengths represent standardized indicator values (see Methodology).

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