What is the India's rank in the Global Hunger Index (GHI) in 2017 ?

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Correct — A, 100th. The Global Hunger Index 2017, released on 12 October 2017 by the International Food Policy Research Institute along with Welthungerhilfe and Concern Worldwide, ranked India 100th out of the 119 countries scored that year, with a GHI score of 31.4. On the GHI's 100-point scale, where 0 means no hunger and a higher score is worse, 31.4 falls in the 'serious' band. That combination — rank 100 of 119, score 31.4, category serious — is what the 2017 edition reported, and it is the figure the question is testing. Because this is a report-specific number, read the year in the stem first: the answer belongs to the 2017 edition and to no other.

Why the other options are wrong — (b) Off by one from the published position. The 2017 edition put India at 100 among 119 countries; no part of that report places India at 101.  (c) Not India's rank in the 2017 report. Numbers in the low hundreds are easy to mix up because India's rank moves from edition to edition and the number of countries covered also changes — but the publishers themselves caution that ranks from different editions are not comparable, so a figure remembered from another year cannot be carried over to 2017.  (d) Also not the 2017 figure. The safe anchor for this question is the pair 100 and 119 — rank 100 out of 119 countries, with a score of 31.4.

Concept: The Global Hunger Index is a composite measure of hunger built from four indicators: the prevalence of undernourishment in the whole population, and three child-focused measures — child stunting (low height for age, reflecting chronic undernutrition), child wasting (low weight for height, reflecting acute undernutrition) and under-five mortality. Undernourishment and child mortality carry one-third of the weight each, while stunting and wasting share the remaining third. Scores are placed on a 100-point scale on which 0 is the best possible outcome, and the severity bands run: 9.9 or below low, 10.0 to 19.9 moderate, 20.0 to 34.9 serious, 35.0 to 49.9 alarming, and 50 or above extremely alarming. Because three of the four indicators concern children, a country's score is driven heavily by child nutrition — which is why India's stunting and wasting numbers matter so much to its position.

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