Date
|
Event
|
Location
|
Death toll (where known; estimated)
|
2200 BC
?
2100 BC
|
The
4.2-kiloyear event
caused famines and civilizational collapse worldwide
|
Global
|
|
441 BC
|
The first famine recorded in ancient Rome.
|
Ancient Rome
[1]
|
|
103 BC
?
89 BC
|
Beminitiya Seya
during the reign of
the Five Dravidians
[2]
|
Anuradhapura Kingdom
|
|
26 BC
|
Famine recorded throughout
Near East
and
Levant
, as recorded by
Josephus
|
Judea
|
20,000
+
|
370
|
Famine in Phrygia
|
Phrygia
|
|
372?373
|
Famine in Edessa
|
Edessa
|
|
400?800
|
Various famines in
Western Europe
associated with the
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
and its sack by
Alaric I
. Between 400 and 800 AD, the population of the city of
Rome
fell by over 90%, mainly because of famine and
plague
.
[
citation needed
]
|
Western Europe
|
|
470
|
Famine
|
Gaul
|
|
535?536
|
Volcanic winter of 536
|
Global
|
|
585
|
Famine
|
Gaul
|
|
639
|
Famine in Arabia during the reign of
Umar
[3]
|
Arabia
|
|
750s
|
|
Islamic Spain (Al-Andalus)
[4]
|
|
779
|
Famine
|
Francia
|
|
792?793
|
Famine
|
Francia
|
|
800?1000
|
Severe
drought
killed millions of
Maya
people due to famine and thirst and initiated a cascade of internal collapses that destroyed their civilization
[5]
|
Mayan areas of
Mesoamerica
|
1,000,000
+
|
805?806
|
Famine
|
Francia
|
|
875?884
|
Peasant rebellion
in China inspired by famine;
[6]
[7]
Huang Chao
captured capital
|
China
|
|
927?928
|
Caused by four months of frost
[8]
[9]
|
Byzantine Empire
|
|
963?968
|
Famine
|
Egypt
|
|
1005?1006
|
|
Europe
[10]
|
|
1016
|
Famine throughout
Europe
[11]
|
Europe
|
|
1025
|
Famine
|
Egypt
|
|
1051
|
Famine forced the
Toltecs
to migrate from a stricken region in what is now central Mexico
[12]
|
Mexico
(present day)
|
|
1055?1056
|
Famine
|
Egypt
|
|
1064?1072
|
Mustansirite Hardship
[13]
[14]
|
Egypt
|
40,000
[13]
|
1069?1070
|
Harrying of the North
|
England
|
100,000
|
1097
|
Famine and plague
[15]
|
France
|
100,000
|
1124?1126
|
Famine
|
Europe
|
|
1143?1147
|
Famine
|
Europe
|
|
1150?1151
|
Famine
|
Europe
|
|
1161?1162
|
Famine
|
Aquitaine
|
|
1181
|
Y?wa famine
|
Japan
|
42,300
|
1196?1197
|
Famine
|
Europe
|
|
1199?1202
|
Famine
|
Egypt
|
100,000
|
1224?1226
|
Famine
|
Europe
|
|
1230
|
Famine in the
Novgorod Republic
[
citation needed
]
|
Russia
|
|
1230?1231
|
The
Kanki famine
, possibly the worst famine in Japan's history.
[16]
Caused by volcanic eruptions.
[17]
|
Japan
|
2,000,000
|
1235
|
Famine in England
[18]
|
England
|
20,000
in
London
|
1256?1258
|
Famine in Italy, Spain, Portugal and England
[19]
|
Europe
|
|
1264
|
Famine
|
Egypt
|
|
1275?1277
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1275?1299
|
Collapse of the
Anasazi civilization
, widespread famine occurred
[21]
|
United States
|
|
1285?1286
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1294
|
Famine
|
Egypt
|
|
1302?1303
|
Famine in Spain and Italy
|
Europe
|
|
1304
|
Famine
|
France
|
|
1305
|
Famine
|
France
|
|
1310
|
Famine
|
France
|
|
1315?1317
|
Great Famine of 1315?1317
|
Europe
[22]
|
7,500,000
|
1319-20
|
Great Bovine Pestilence
|
England
|
|
1321
|
Famine
|
England
|
|
1328?1330
|
Famine in Italy, Spain and Ireland
|
Europe
|
|
1330?1333
|
Famine
|
France
|
|
1333?1337
|
Chinese famine of 1333?1337
|
China
[23]
|
6,000,000
|
1339?1340
|
Famine in Italy, Spain and Ireland
|
Europe
|
|
1344?1345
|
Famine in India, under the reign of
Muhammad bin Tughluq
[
citation needed
]
|
India
|
|
1346?1347
|
Famine in France, Italy and Spain
|
Europe
|
|
1349?1351
|
Famine
|
France
|
|
1351
|
Famine
|
England
|
|
1358?1360
|
Famine
|
France
|
|
1369
|
Famine
|
England
|
|
1371
|
Famine
|
France
|
|
1374?1375
|
Famine in France, Italy and Spain
|
Europe
|
|
1374?1375
|
Famine
|
Egypt
|
|
1390?1391
|
Famine
|
France
|
|
1394?1396
|
Famine
|
Egypt
|
|
1396?1407
|
The
Durga Devi famine
|
India
[24]
[11]
|
|
1403?1404
|
Famine
|
Egypt
|
|
1432?1434
|
The Hungry Years
|
Czech Republic
|
|
1437?1438
|
Famine in France, Holy Roman Empire, and Britain
|
Europe
|
|
1441
|
Famine in
Mayapan
|
Mexico
[25]
|
|
1450?1454
|
Famine in the
Aztec Empire
,
[26]
interpreted as the gods' need for sacrifices.
[27]
|
Mexico
|
|
1460?1461
|
Kansh?
famine in Japan
[
citation needed
]
|
Japan
|
82,000
|
1472?1474
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1476
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1482?1484
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1493
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1502?1505
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1504
|
|
Spain
[29]
|
|
1518
|
Venice
[
citation needed
]
|
Italy
(present day)
|
|
1521?1523
|
Famine in the Low Countries, Ireland and the Nordic Countries
|
Europe
|
|
1527?1530
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1528
|
Famine in
Languedoc
|
France
[30]
|
|
1533?1534
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1535
|
Famine in Ethiopia
|
Ethiopia
|
|
1539?1540
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1540
|
Tenbun famine
[
ja
]
|
Japan
|
|
1544?1545
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1550?1552
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1558?1560
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1567?1570
|
Famine in
Harar
, combined with plague
[
citation needed
]
. Emir of Harar died.
|
Ethiopia
|
|
1569?1574
|
Pan-European famine, including Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Low Countries, Nordic Countries, Russia and mostly east of Ukraine
|
Europe
|
|
1585?1587
|
Pan-European famine, including Italy, France, Low Countries, Britain and Ireland
|
Europe
|
|
1590?1598
|
Pan-European famine, including Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Britain and the Nordic countries
|
Europe
|
|
1592?1594
|
Famine during the
1592?1598 Japanese invasions of Korea
, known in Korea as the Kyegap Famine (
Korean
:
界甲大飢饉
;
Hanja
:
癸甲大飢饉
).
[31]
|
Joseon
|
|
1600?1601
|
Famine in Emilia and southern Lombardy
|
Italy
|
|
1601?1603
|
One of the worst famines in all of Russian history, with as many as 100,000 in Moscow and up to one-third of Tsar
Godunov
's subjects killed; see
Russian famine of 1601?1603
.
[33]
[34]
The same famine killed about half of the
Estonian
population.
|
Russia
|
2,000,000
|
1607?1608
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1618?1648
|
Famines in Europe caused by
Thirty Years' War
|
Europe
|
|
1618?1622
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1619
|
Famine in
Japan
. During the
Tokugawa period
, there were 154 famines, of which 21 were widespread and serious.
[35]
|
Japan
|
|
1626?1627
|
Py?ngj?ng Famine
(
Korean
:
兵丁大飢饉
;
Hanja
:
丙丁大飢饉
)
[36]
|
Joseon
|
|
1628?1632
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1630?1632
|
Deccan famine of 1630?1632
|
India
|
7,400,000
|
1630?1631
|
Famine in north-west China
|
China
|
|
1640?1643
|
Kan'ei Great Famine
|
Japan
|
50,000
-
100,000
|
1648?1649
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1648?1660
|
Poland
lost an estimated 1/3 of its population due to wars, famine, and
plague
[
citation needed
]
|
Poland
|
|
1649
|
Famine in northern England
[37]
|
England
|
|
1650?1652
|
Famine in the east of France
[38]
|
France
|
|
1651?1653
|
Famine throughout much of
Ireland
during the
Cromwellian conquest of Ireland
[39]
|
Ireland
|
|
1661
|
Famine in India, due to lack of any rainfall for two years
[40]
[11]
|
India
|
|
1670s ? 1680s
|
Plague and famines in Spain
[
citation needed
]
|
Spain
|
|
1670?1671
|
Kyungshin Famine
|
Joseon
|
1,000,000
[41]
-
1,500,000
|
1672
|
Famine in southern Italy
|
Italy
|
|
1678?1679
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1680
|
Famine in
Sardinia
[42]
|
Italy
(present day)
|
80,000
[43]
|
1680s
|
Famine in
Sahel
[38]
|
West Africa
|
|
1690s
|
Famine throughout
Scotland
which killed 5?15% of the population
[44]
|
Scotland
|
60,000
?
180,000
|
1693?1694
|
Between 1.3 and 1.5 million French as some estimet in realithy around 600 000-700 000 French died in the
Great Famine of 1693-1694
|
France
|
700 000?1300000
[45]
[46]
|
1693?1695
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1695?1697
|
Great Famine of Estonia
killed about a fifth of
Estonian
and
Livonian
population (70,000?75,000 people). Famine also hit
Sweden
(80,000?100,000 dead)
|
The
Swedish Empire
, of which
Swedish Estonia
and
Swedish Livonia
were
dominions
at that time
|
150,000
?
175,000
[
citation needed
]
|
1696?1699
|
?lby?ng famine
[
ko
]
|
Joseon
|
Official statistic in the
Annals
is 1,410,000, but possibly higher.
[47]
|
1696?1697
|
Great Famine of Finland
wiped out almost a third of the population
[48]
|
Finland
, then part of
Sweden
proper
|
150,000
|
1702?1704
|
Famine in
Deccan
[49]
|
India
|
2,000,000
[49]
|
1708?1711
|
Famine in
East Prussia
killed 250,000 people or 41% of its population.
[50]
According to other sources the great mortality was due to
plague (disease)
, which between 1709 and 1711 killed about 200,000 ? 250,000 out of 600,000 inhabitants of East Prussia.
[51]
The
Great Northern War plague outbreak
of 1708-1712 also affected East Prussia.
|
East Prussia
|
250,000
|
1709
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1709?1710
|
The
fr:Grande famine de 1709
|
France
[52]
|
600,000
|
1716
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1722
|
|
Arabia
[53]
|
|
1724
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1727?1728
|
Famine in the
English Midlands
[54]
|
England
|
|
1732?1733
|
Ky?h? famine
|
Japan
|
12,172
?
169,000
[55]
|
1738?1756
|
Famine in West Africa, half the population of
Timbuktu
died of starvation
[56]
|
West Africa
|
|
1740?1741
|
Irish Famine (1740?1741)
|
Ireland
|
300,000
?
480,000
|
1750?1756
|
Famine in the Senegambia region
[57]
|
Senegal
,
Gambia
(present day)
|
|
1764
|
Famine in
Naples
[58]
|
Italy
(present day)
|
|
1767
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1769?1773
|
Great Bengal famine of 1770
,
[11]
10 million dead (one third of population)
|
India
,
Bangladesh
(present day)
|
10,000,000
|
1770?1771
|
Famines in Czech lands
killed hundreds of thousands people
|
Czech Republic
(present day)
|
100,000
+
|
1771?1772
|
Famine in
Saxony
and southern Germany
[
citation needed
]
|
Germany
|
|
1773
|
Famine in
Sweden
[59]
|
Sweden
|
|
1779
|
Famine in
Rabat
|
Morocco
[60]
|
|
1780s
|
Great Tenmei famine
|
Japan
|
20,000
?
920,000
|
1783
|
Famine in Iceland caused by
Laki
eruption killed one-fifth of Iceland's population
[61]
|
Iceland
|
|
1783?1784
|
Chalisa famine
|
India
|
11,000,000
[62]
|
1784
|
Widespread famine throughout Egypt
[63]
|
Egypt
|
|
1784?1785
|
Famine in Tunisia
[
citation needed
]
|
Tunisia
|
|
1788
|
The two years previous to the
French Revolution
saw bad harvests and harsh winters, possibly because of a strong
El Nino
cycle
[64]
or caused by the 1783
Laki
eruption in
Iceland
.
[65]
[66]
|
France
|
|
1789
|
Famine in Ethiopia
afflicted "amhara/tigray north"
|
Ethiopia
|
|
1789?1793
|
Doji bara famine
or
Skull famine
|
India
|
11,000,000
|
1801
|
Famine
|
Italy
|
|
1804?1872, 1913
|
A series of 14
famines in Austrian Galicia
|
Poland
,
Ukraine
(present day)
|
400,000
-
550,000
|
1809?1815
|
Crop failure due to dry weather conditions.
|
Joseon
|
Korea's total population decreased by around 2,000,000 from 1800 to the early 1820s.
[67]
|
1811?1812
|
Famine devastated
Madrid
[68]
|
Spain
|
20,000
[69]
|
1815
|
Eruption of
Tambora
, Indonesia. Tens of thousands died in subsequent famine
|
Indonesia
|
10,000
|
1816?1817
|
Year Without a Summer
|
Europe
|
65,000
|
1830?1833
|
Claimed to have killed 42% of the population
|
Cape Verde
|
30,000
|
1832?1833
|
Guntur famine of 1832
|
India
|
150,000
|
1833?1837
|
Tenp? famine
|
Japan
|
|
1837?1838
|
Agra famine of 1837?1838
|
India
|
800,000
|
1845?1857
|
Highland Potato Famine
|
Scotland
|
|
1845?1849
|
Great Famine in Ireland
killed more than 600,000 out of over 10 million people inhabiting Ireland. Between 1.5?2 million people forced to emigrate
[71]
|
Ireland
|
600 000 to over 1500000 that emigrated
+
|
1846
|
Famine led to the peasant revolt known as "
Maria da Fonte
" in the north of
Portugal
[
citation needed
]
|
Portugal
|
|
1846-1848
|
The
Newfoundland Potato Famine
, related to the
Irish Potato Famine
.
|
Newfoundland
, present-day
Canada
|
|
1849?1850
|
Demak and Grobogan in Central Java, caused by four successive crop failures due to drought.
|
Indonesia
|
83,000
[72]
|
1860?1861
|
Upper Doab famine of 1860?1861
|
India
|
2,000,000
|
1863?1867
|
Famine in Cape Verde
|
Cape Verde
|
30,000
[73]
|
1866
|
Orissa famine of 1866
|
India
|
1,000,000
[74]
|
1866?1868
|
Finnish famine of 1866?1868
. About 15% of the entire population died
|
Finland
|
150,000
+
|
1866?1868
|
Famine in French Algeria
|
French Algeria
|
820,000
|
1867?1869
|
Swedish famine of 1867?1869
.
|
Sweden
|
|
1869
|
Rajputana famine of 1869
|
India
|
1,500,000
[74]
|
1869?1870
|
Famines due to weather, with
North Hamgyong Province
particularly affected.
[75]
|
Joseon
|
|
1870?1872
|
Persian famine of 1870?1872
|
Iran
|
200,000
-
3,000,000
Estimates vary
[76]
|
1873?1874
|
Famine in
Anatolia
caused by drought and floods
[77]
[78]
|
Turkey
(present day)
|
|
1873?1874
|
Bihar famine of 1873?1874
|
India
|
|
1876?1879
|
Famine in India, China,
Brazil
, Northern Africa (and other countries).
Famine in northern China
killed 9?13 million people.
5.5 million died in the
Great Famine of 1876?1878
in India. 500,000 died in Brazil. British policies and drought were responsible for the deaths in India.
[80]
[81]
The famine in China was a result of drought influenced by the
El Nino?Southern Oscillation
.
In Brazil,
Grande Seca
killed probably more than 400.000 people.
|
India
,
China
,
Brazil
,
Northern Africa
(and other countries).
|
15,000,000
?
19,000,000
in Northern China, India and Brazil.
|
1878?1880
|
St. Lawrence Island famine
,
Alaska
[83]
|
United States
|
1,000
|
1879
|
1879 Famine in Ireland
. Unlike previous famines, this famine mainly caused hunger and food shortages but little mortality.
|
Ireland
|
|
1888?1889
|
Famine in Orrisa, Ganjam and Northern Bihar
|
India
|
150,000
|
1888?1892
|
Ethiopian Great famine
. About one-third of the population died.
[84]
[85]
Conditions worsen with
cholera
outbreaks (1889?92), a
typhus
epidemic, and a major
smallpox
epidemic (1889?90).
|
Ethiopia
|
1,000,000
|
1891?1892
|
Russian famine of 1891?1892
. Beginning along the Volga River and spreading to the Urals and the Black Sea.
|
Russia
|
375,000
?
500,000
[86]
[87]
|
1895?1898
|
Famine during the
Cuban War of Independence
|
Cuba
|
200,000
?
300,000
|
1896?1897
|
Famine in northern China leading in part to the
Boxer Rebellion
|
China
|
|
1896?1902
|
Indian famine of 1896?1897
and
Indian famine of 1899?1900
due to drought and British policies.
[81]
[88]
|
India
|
2,000,000
(British territories), mortality unknown in princely states
|
1900?1903
|
Famine in Cape Verde
|
Cape Verde
|
11,000
?
20,000
[73]
|
1904?1906
|
Famine in Spain
[90]
[91]
[92]
|
Spain
|
|
1906?1907
|
Chinese famine of 1906?1907
|
China
|
20,000,000
-
25,000,000
[93]
|
1914?1918
|
Mount Lebanon
famine
during
World War I
which was caused by the
Entente
and
Ottoman
blockade of food and to a swarm of locusts which killed up to 200,000 people, estimated to be half of the Mount Lebanon population
[94]
|
Lebanon
|
200,000
|
1914?1919
|
Famine caused by the Allied
blockade of Germany
during World War I until Germany signed the
Treaty of Versailles
.
[95]
|
Germany
|
763,000
|
1917
|
Famine in
German East Africa
|
German East Africa
|
300,000
|
1917?1919
|
Persian famine of 1917?1919
|
Iran
|
2,000,000
,
[96]
but estimates range as high as
10,000,000
[97]
|
1918?1919
|
Rumanura famine in
Ruanda-Burundi
, causing large migrations to the Congo
|
Rwanda
and
Burundi
(present day)
[
citation needed
]
|
|
1919?1922
|
Kazakh famine of 1919?1922
. A series of famines in
Turkestan
at the time of the Bolshevik revolution killed about a sixth of the population
|
Turkestan
|
[98]
|
1920?1921
|
Famine in northern China
|
China
|
500,000
|
1920?1922
|
Famine in Cape Verde
|
Cape Verde
|
24,000
?
25,000
[73]
|
1921
|
Russian famine of 1921?1922
|
Russia
|
5,000,000
[99]
|
1921?1922
|
1921?1922 famine in Tatarstan
|
Russia
|
500,000
?
2,000,000
[100]
|
1921?1923
|
1921?1923 famine in Soviet Russian Ukraine
|
Ukraine
|
250,000
?
1,000,000
[101]
|
1924?1925
|
Famine in
Volga German
colonies in Russia. One-third of the entire population perished
[102]
[
unreliable source?
]
|
Russia
|
|
1924?1925
|
Minor famine
in Ireland due to heavy rain
|
Irish Free State
[
citation needed
]
|
|
1926
|
Famine in Darfur
[103]
|
Darfur,
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
|
|
1928?1929
|
Famine in
Ruanda-Burundi
, causing large migrations to the Congo
|
Rwanda
and
Burundi
(present day)
|
|
1928?1930
|
Chinese famine of 1928?1930
in northern China. The
drought
resulted in million of deaths
|
China
|
3,000,000
-
10,000,000
|
1930?1931
|
Famine
|
Madagascar
|
32,000
|
1932?1933
|
Soviet famine of 1932?1933
, including
famine in Ukraine
, and
famine in Kazakhstan
, caused by Soviet collectivization policy, abnormal cold period,
[104]
and bad harvests in the years of 1931-1932.
[105]
|
Russian SFSR
,
Ukrainian SSR
, and
Kazakh ASSR
|
5,000,000
[105]
-
7,000,000
[106]
|
1939?1952
|
Famine in Spain caused primarily by the implementation of the autarkic economy
|
Spain
|
200,000
[107]
[108]
|
1940?1943
|
Famine in Cape Verde
|
Cape Verde
|
20,000
[73]
|
1940?1945
|
Famine in
Warsaw Ghetto
, as well as other ghettos and concentration camps (note: this famine was the result of deliberate denial of food to ghetto residents on the part of Nazis).
[109]
|
Occupied Poland
|
|
1940?1948
|
Famine in
Morocco
between 1940 and 1948, because of refueling system installed by France.
[110]
|
Morocco
|
200,000
|
1941?1944
|
Leningrad
famine caused by a 900-day blockade by German troops. About one million Leningrad residents starved, froze, or were bombed to death in the winter of 1941?42, when supply routes to the city were cut off and temperatures dropped to ?40 °C (?40 °F).
[111]
According to other estimates about 800,000 out of an immediate pre-siege population of about 2.5 million perished.
[112]
|
Soviet Union
|
800,000
?
1,000,000
|
1941?1944
|
Famine
in Greece caused by the
Axis occupation
.
[113]
[114]
|
Greece
|
300,000
|
1941?1942
|
Famine in
Kharkiv
. In a city with a population of about 450,000 while under German occupation, there was a famine starting in the winter of 1941?42 that lasted until the end of September 1942. The local administration recorded 19,284 deaths between the second half of December 1941 and the second half of September 1942, thereof 11,918 (59.6%) from hunger.
[115]
The Foreign Office representative at Army High Command 6 noted on 25.03.1942 that according to reports reaching municipal authorities at least 50 people were dying of hunger every day, and that the true number might be much higher as in many cases the cause of death was stated as "unknown" and besides many deaths were not reported.
[116]
British historian Alex Kay estimates that at least 30,000 city inhabitants died in the famine.
[117]
According to Soviet sources about 70?80,000 people died of starvation in Kharkiv during the occupation by Nazi Germany.
[118]
|
Soviet Union
|
30,000
?
80,000
|
1941-1943
|
Famine in
Kyiv
. On April 1, 1942, well after the first winter of famine, Kyiv officially had about 352,000 inhabitants. In the middle of 1943?more than four months before the end of German rule?the city officially had about 295,600. Death by starvation was not the only reason for the rapid decline in population: deportation to Germany and Nazi shootings also played their part. Nevertheless, starvation was an important factor.
[119]
British historian Alex Kay estimates that about 10,000 city inhabitants died of starvation.
[120]
|
Soviet Union
|
10,000
|
1942?1943
|
Chinese famine of 1942?1943
|
Henan, China
|
700,000
|
1942?1943
|
Iranian famine of 1942?1943
|
Iran
|
3,000,000
[121]
[
better source needed
]
|
1943
|
Bengal famine of 1943
|
Bengal, India
,
Bangladesh
|
2,100,000
|
1943?1944
|
Ruzagayura famine
in
Ruanda-Urundi
, causing emigrations to Congo
|
Rwanda
and
Burundi
(present day)
|
36,000
?
50,000
|
1943?1945
|
Famine in
Hadhramaut
|
Yemen
(present day)
|
10,000
[122]
[123]
|
1944?1945
|
Java under Japanese occupation
|
Java
,
Indonesia
|
2,400,000
[124]
|
1944
|
Dutch famine of 1944?1945
during
World War II
|
Netherlands
|
20,000
|
1945
|
Vietnamese famine of 1945
|
Vietnam
|
600,000
?
2,000,000
[125]
|
1945-1947
|
Famine in
Konigsberg
(
Kaliningrad
)
|
Soviet Union
|
57,000
?
76,500
[126]
|
1946-1947
|
German "
Hungerwinter
"
|
Germany
|
>100,000
[127]
|
1946?1947
|
Soviet famine of 1946?1947
|
Soviet Union
|
1,000,000
?
1,500,000
[128]
[129]
|
1946?1948
|
Famine in Cape Verde
|
Cape Verde
|
30,000
[73]
|
1949
|
Nyasaland famine of 1949
|
Malawi
|
200
|
1950
|
1950 Caribou Inuit famine
|
Canada
|
60
|
1958
|
Famine in Tigray
|
Ethiopia
|
100,000
|
1959?1961
|
The
Great Chinese Famine
[130]
[131]
[132]
Some researchers also include the year 1958 or 1962.
|
China
(
mainland
)
|
15,000,000
?
55,000,000
[131]
[133]
[134]
|
1966?1967
|
Lombok, drought and malnutrition, exacerbated by restrictions on regional rice trade
|
Indonesia
|
50,000
[135]
|
1966?1967
|
Rice crisis
[136]
|
Burma
|
|
1967?1970
|
Biafran famine caused by
Nigerian blockade
|
Nigeria
|
2,000,000
|
1968?1972
|
Sahel drought
created a famine that killed a million people
[137]
|
Mauritania
,
Mali
,
Chad
,
Niger
and
Burkina Faso
|
1,000,000
[
citation needed
]
|
1971?1973
|
Afghanistan drought
|
Afghanistan
|
|
1972?1973
|
Famine in Ethiopia
caused by drought and poor governance; failure of the government to handle this crisis led to the fall of
Haile Selassie
and to
Derg
rule
|
Ethiopia
|
60,000
[138]
|
1973
|
Darfur drought
|
Darfur, Sudan
|
1,000
|
1974
|
Bangladesh famine of 1974
|
Bangladesh
|
27,000
-
1,500,000
[
citation needed
]
|
1975?1979
|
Khmer Rouge
. A maximum estimate of 500,000
Cambodians
lost their lives to famine
|
Cambodia
|
500,000
[139]
|
1980?1981
|
Caused by drought and conflict
[138]
|
Uganda
|
30,000
[138]
|
1982?1985
|
Famine caused by the
Mozambican Civil War
|
Mozambique
|
100,000
|
1983?1985
|
1983?1985 famine in Ethiopia
|
Ethiopia
|
400,000
?
600,000
[140]
|
1984?1985
|
Famine caused by drought, economic crisis and the
Second Sudanese Civil War
|
Sudan
|
240,000
|
1988
|
Famine caused by the
Second Sudanese Civil War
|
Sudan
|
100,000
|
1991?1992
|
Famine in Somalia
caused by drought and civil war
[138]
|
Somalia
|
300,000
[138]
|
1993
|
1993 Sudan famine
|
Sudan
|
|
1994?1998
|
North Korean famine
.
[141]
[142]
Scholars estimate 600,000 died of starvation (other estimates range from 200,000 to 3.5 million).
[143]
|
North Korea
|
200,000
?
3,500,000
|
1998
|
1998 Sudan famine
caused by
war
and
drought
|
Sudan
|
70,000
[138]
|
1998
|
1998 Afghanistan famine
|
Afghanistan
|
|
1998?2000
|
Famine in Ethiopia
. The situation worsened by
Eritrean?Ethiopian War
|
Ethiopia
|
|
1998?2004
|
Second Congo War
. 2.7 million people died, mostly from starvation and disease
|
Democratic Republic of the Congo
|
2,700,000
|
2003?2005
|
Famine during the
War in Darfur
|
Sudan
|
200,000
|
2005?2006
|
2005?2006 Niger food crisis
. At least three million were affected in Niger and 10 million throughout West Africa
[
citation needed
]
|
Niger
and
West Africa
|
|
2011?2012
|
Famine in Somalia, brought on by the
2011 East Africa drought
[144]
|
Somalia
|
285,000
|
2012
|
Famine in West Africa, brought on by the
2012 Sahel drought
[145]
|
Senegal
,
Gambia
,
Niger
,
Mauritania
,
Mali
,
Burkina Faso
|
|
2016?present
|
Famine in Yemen
, arising from the
Yemeni Civil War
and the subsequent
blockade of Yemen by Saudi Arabia
|
Yemen
|
85,000
children as of 2017
[146]
Unknown number of adults.
|
2017
|
Famine in South Sudan
[147]
Famine in Somalia, due to
2017 Somali drought
. Famine in Nigeria
|
South Sudan
,
Unity State
,
Somalia
, and
Nigeria
.
|
|
2020?present
|
Famine in the Tigray War
|
Tigray
,
Ethiopia
|
|
2021?present
|
2021?2022 Madagascar famine
|
Madagascar
|
2023?present
|
Gaza Strip famine
*
|
Gaza Strip
,
Palestine
|
|