 The region's score is driven up by its undernourishment and child mortality rates, which are the highest of any region, while its child stunting rate is nearly as high as that of South Asia.Troublingly, while the prevalence of undernourishment in Africa South of the Sahara consistently declined from 1999–2001 to 2013–2015, it has since reversed course and begun to rise.In contrast, hunger is low or moderate in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, Latin America and the Caribbean, East and Southeast Asia, and the Near East and North Africa, where 2019 regional GHI scores range from 6.6 to 13.3.