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Article: Food security in Ethiopia

According to an early 2010 report, 5.2 million people in Ethiopia face a precarious food security situation. The worsening food security situation is attributed primarily to poor rainfall last year during the February–May, and June–October seasons. A series of successive droughts had already weakened Ethiopia's food situation, with "poor and erratic rainfall over the last two years." Global conditions such as the high food and fuel prices that have persisted in the country since 2008 and the global financial crisis have also contributed to Ethiopia's failing food security. Ethiopia is considered a least developed country ranked 171 out of 182 countries in the UNDP Human Development Index for 2009. In the 2010 Global Hunger Index, which ranks developing countries and countries in transition based on the proportion of undernourished people, proportion of underweight children under five, and child mortality rate, Ethiopia was given a 29.8, on a scale of 0-100, with 0 being the best and 100 the worst possible score. Ethiopia is one of the countries that made the most absolute progress improving its score between 1990 and 2010; in 1990 it had a score of 43.7, and now it's down to 29.8. However, this score is still highly troubling – it's currently ranked 80th out of 84 countries.

Current statistics (my edit)
Hunger and undernutrition rates according to the Global Hunger Index (GHI) have decreased from 2000-2020. The Global Hunger Index for Ethiopia in 2000 was 53.7 and in 2020 it is 26.2. Ethiopia's recent economic growth has improved it's Global Index Score. The improvement in the economic trends are due to the growth in agriculture which plays a dominant role in Ethiopia's economy. This score indicates improvement, however the score is still considered to be serious. Ethiopia ranks 92 out of 107 countries with sufficient data to calculate 2020 GHI scores.

The Human Development Reports provided by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) ranks child malnutrition by moderate to severe in children under age 5. In the most recent report with data collected from 2010-2018, Ethiopia had a score of 38.4 in Human Development. The scores in Human Development are classified by the percentage of children under age 5 who are more than two standard deviations below the median height-for-age of the reference population according to the World Health Organization Child Growth Standards (WHO). A score of 38.4 indicates "low human development" and it classifies Ethiopia as a developing country.