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Famines in History

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Famines and their estimated death tolls. Records are sorted by magnitude and impact; each event has its own page with location, date, source and nearby events.

  1. 1.1958 CEFamine — China· 36,000,000 deaths
  2. 2.1928 CEFamine — China· 10,000,000 deaths
  3. 3.1876 CEFamine — China· 9,500,000 deaths
  4. 4.1876 CEFamine — India· 6,100,000 deaths
  5. 5.1896 CEFamine — India· 5,500,000 deaths
  6. 6.1921 CEFamine — USSR (Southern Russia & Ukraine)· 5,200,000 deaths
  7. 7.1937 CEFamine — China· 5,000,000 deaths
  8. 8.1934 CEFamine — China· 5,000,000 deaths
  9. 9.1941 CEFamine — German occupied USSR· 4,100,000 deaths
  10. 10.1918 CEFamine — Russia· 4,000,000 deaths
  11. 11.1941 CEFamine — Germany, USSR· 3,300,000 deaths
  12. 12.1943 CEFamine — India, Bangladesh· 3,000,000 deaths
  13. 13.1931 CEFamine — Ukraine· 3,000,000 deaths
  14. 14.1942 CEFamine — Indonesia· 2,400,000 deaths
  15. 15.1974 CEFamine — Bangladesh· 1,500,000 deaths
  16. 16.1931 CEFamine — USSR (Southern Russia)· 1,500,000 deaths
  17. 17.1931 CEFamine — USSR (Kazakhstan)· 1,500,000 deaths
  18. 18.1888 CEFamine — Sudan· 1,500,000 deaths
  19. 19.1888 CEFamine — Ethiopia· 1,500,000 deaths
  20. 20.1941 CEFamine — Japan· 1,400,000 deaths
  21. 21.1968 CEFamine — Nigeria· 1,300,000 deaths
  22. 22.1899 CEFamine — Congo Free State· 1,300,000 deaths
  23. 23.1891 CEFamine — Russia· 1,300,000 deaths
  24. 24.1975 CEFamine — Cambodia· 1,210,000 deaths
  25. 25.1946 CEFamine — USSR· 1,100,000 deaths
  26. 26.1941 CEFamine — USSR· 1,100,000 deaths
  27. 27.1944 CEFamine — Vietnam· 1,000,000 deaths
  28. 28.1941 CEFamine — Russia· 1,000,000 deaths
  29. 29.1940 CEFamine — Poland (ghettos and concentration camps)· 1,000,000 deaths
  30. 30.1914 CEFamine — Serbia, Balkans· 1,000,000 deaths
  31. 31.1899 CEFamine — India· 1,000,000 deaths
  32. 32.1897 CEFamine — China· 1,000,000 deaths
  33. 33.1983 CEFamine — Ethiopia· 800,000 deaths
  34. 34.1913 CEFamine — Sahel· 800,000 deaths
  35. 35.1899 CEFamine — Philippines· 775,000 deaths
  36. 36.1917 CEFamine — Germany· 763,000 deaths
  37. 37.1939 CEFamine — USSR· 560,000 deaths
  38. 38.2020 CEFamine — Central African Republic· 553,000 deaths
  39. 39.1940 CEFamine — USSR· 540,000 deaths
  40. 40.1940 CEFamine — Poland· 500,000 deaths
  41. 41.1920 CEFamine — China· 500,000 deaths
  42. 42.1915 CEFamine — Greater Syria· 500,000 deaths
  43. 43.1876 CEFamine — Brazil· 500,000 deaths
  44. 44.1870 CEFamine — Persia· 500,000 deaths
  45. 45.1915 CEFamine — Austria-Hungary· 465,000 deaths
  46. 46.1917 CEFamine — Persia· 455,200 deaths
  47. 47.1915 CEFamine — Ottoman Empire· 400,000 deaths
  48. 48.2016 CEFamine — Nigeria· 340,000 deaths
  49. 49.2021 CEFamine — Ethiopia· 336,000 deaths
  50. 50.1995 CEFamine — North Korea· 330,000 deaths
  51. 51.1981 CEFamine — Mozambique· 300,000 deaths
  52. 52.1941 CEFamine — Greece· 300,000 deaths
  53. 53.1914 CEFamine — German East Africa· 300,000 deaths
  54. 54.1905 CEFamine — Tanzania· 300,000 deaths
  55. 55.1998 CEFamine — Democratic Republic of Congo· 290,000 deaths
  56. 56.2012 CEFamine — Syria· 268,000 deaths
  57. 57.2011 CEFamine — Somalia· 258,000 deaths
  58. 58.1988 CEFamine — South Sudan· 250,000 deaths
  59. 59.1945 CEFamine — Eastern Europe· 250,000 deaths
  60. 60.1991 CEFamine — Somalia· 240,000 deaths
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