Progress in Reducing Malnutrition, Food Poverty (Financial Tribune)

The Iranian Financial Tribune used IFPRI’s 2016 Global Hunger Index to report that malnutrition in that country had dropped to 3.2% in 2016 compared with 5.1% in 1990, an improvement that, coupled with a GHI score that fell from 18.5% to 6.7% over the same period, shows that Iran has made major progress in fighting food poverty. GHI scores are based on several data points including malnourishment and child wasting, stunting, and mortality. 0 is the best possible score and 100 is the worst.