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{{Short description|Famines which have happened throughout world history}}
{{Update|date=January 2017}}
{{More citations needed|date=March 2025}}

[[File:Irish potato famine Bridget O'Donnel.jpg|thumb|150px|Depiction of victims of the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Irish Great Famine]], 1845–1852.]]
{{incomplete list|date=July 2024}}

==List==
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! style="width:10%;"| Date
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|c. 2,700 BC
|Seven year famine, recorded on the [[Famine Stela]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-07-15 |title=Famine Stela: A piece of Pharaonic diary |url=https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/54056/Famine-Stela-A-piece-of-Pharaonic-diary |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=EgyptToday}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-02-15 |title=Famine in Ancient Egypt |url=https://egypt-museum.com/famine/ |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Egypt Museum |language=en-US |author1=Masqueradetheheart }}</ref>
|[[Old Kingdom of Egypt|Egypt]]
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| {{Date table sorting|-2200}}–{{Date table sorting|-2100}} || The [[4.2-kiloyear event]] caused famines and civilizational collapse worldwide || Global ||
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| {{Date table sorting|-441}} || The first famine recorded in ancient Rome. || [[Roman Republic|Ancient Rome]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=From the Founding of the City/Book 4 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/From_the_Founding_of_the_City/Book_4 |access-date=2024-11-01 |website=en.wikisource.org |language=en}}</ref>||
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| {{Date table sorting|-114}}
|Famine caused by drought during the third year in the [[Emperor Wu of Han|Yuanding]] period. Starvation in over 40 commanderies east of the [[Hangu Pass|Hangu mountain pass]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Deng |first=Yunte |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7jpDwAAQBAJ&q=famines+in+ancient+dates |title=The History of Famine Relief in China |date=2020-07-23 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-47990-5 |pages=14 |language=en}}</ref>
|[[Han Dynasty|Han China]]
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|{{Date table sorting|-103}}–{{Date table sorting|-89}}
|[[Beminitiya Seya]] during the reign of [[the Five Dravidians]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Shaw |first1=Rajib |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cm8syL5yctUC&q=Droughts+in+Asian+Monsoon+Region |title=Droughts in Asian Monsoon Region |last2=Nguyen |first2=Huy |publisher=Emerald Group Publishing |year=2011 |isbn=9780857248640 |page=97}}</ref>
|[[Anuradhapura Kingdom]]
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| {{circa}} {{Date table sorting|-43}}
| Famine due to [[volcanic winter]] following the eruption of [[Mount Etna]] in 44&nbsp;BC and the larger eruption of [[Mount Okmok]] early in 43&nbsp;BC,<ref name=Okmok_II>{{Cite journal |last1=McConnell |first1=Joseph R. |last2=Sigl |first2=Michael |last3=Plunkett |first3=Gill |last4=Burke |first4=Andrea |last5=Kim |first5=Woon Mi |last6=Raible |first6=Christoph C. |last7=Wilson |first7=Andrew I. |last8=Manning |first8=Joseph G. |last9=Ludlow |first9=Francis |last10=Chellman |first10=Nathan J. |last11=Innes |first11=Helen M. |last12=Yang |first12=Zhen |last13=Larsen |first13=Jessica F. |last14=Schaefer |first14=Janet R. |last15=Kipfstuhl |first15=Sepp |display-authors=3 |date=2020-07-07 |title=Extreme climate after massive eruption of Alaska's Okmok volcano in 43 BCE and effects on the late Roman Republic and Ptolemaic Kingdom |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences |language=en |volume=117 |issue=27 |pages=15443–15449 |doi=10.1073/pnas.2002722117 |issn=0027-8424 |pmc=7354934 |pmid=32571905 |bibcode=2020PNAS..11715443M |doi-access=free}}</ref> affecting China (43&nbsp;BC),<ref name=Huaynaputina_Fei>{{cite journal |last1=Fei |first1=Jie |last2=Zhang |first2=David D. |last3=Lee |first3=Harry F. |date=2016-01-01 |title=1600 AD Huaynaputina Eruption (Peru), Abrupt Cooling, and Epidemics in China and Korea |journal=Advances in Meteorology |volume=2016 |issue=1 |pages=1–12 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |doi=10.1155/2016/3217038 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2016AdMet201617038F }}</ref> Italy (43&nbsp;BC), Egypt ({{circa|43&nbsp;BC|42&nbsp;BC}}) and Greece (42&nbsp;BC).<ref name=Okmok_II/>
| [[Roman Republic]], [[Ptolemaic Kingdom|Egypt]] and [[Han dynasty|China]]
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| {{Date table sorting|-26}} || Famine recorded throughout [[Near East]] and [[Levant]], as recorded by [[Josephus]]{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Judea]] || {{nts|20000}}+
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| 333 AD
| Famine in [[Antioch]]<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Ayalon |first=Yaron |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3aGTBQAAQBAJ&q=famine |title=Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire |date=2015 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-07297-8 |language=en}}</ref>
| [[Coele Syria (Roman province)|Coele Syria]], [[Roman Empire]]
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|368–369
|Famine<ref name=":9">{{Cite book |last=Stathakopoulos |first=Dionysios |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KgwkDwAAQBAJ&q=famine |title=Famine and Pestilence in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Empire: A Systematic Survey of Subsistence Crises and Epidemics |date=2017-05-15 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-93703-0 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Holman |first=Susan R. |date=2001-08-09 |title=Hunger: Famine, Relief, and Identity in Basil's Cappadocia |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/27024 |publisher=Oxford University Press |pages=viii, 65 |isbn=9780195139129 |doi=10.1093/0195139127.003.0003 |access-date=2025-04-04}}</ref> during the drought of the 360s–370s<ref name=wcc.395>{{cite journal |last1=Slavin |first1=Philip |date=2016-05-01 |title=Climate and famines: a historical reassessment |url=https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.395 |journal=WIREs Climate Change |volume=7 |issue=3 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |pages=433–447 |doi=10.1002/wcc.395 |bibcode=2016WIRCC...7..433S |access-date=2025-04-04|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
|[[Cappadocia (Roman province)|Cappadocia]], [[Byzantine Empire]]
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| 370 || Famine in Phrygia{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Phrygia]] ||
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| 372–373 || Famine in Edessa{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Edessa]] ||
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| 375–376 || Famine during the drought of the 360s–370s<ref name=wcc.395/> || [[Byzantine Empire]] ||
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| 383
| Famine in Rome. A policy had been introduced in 364 AD that stipulated taxes in Rome had to be paid in grain<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Fraser |first=Evan D. G. |date=2011-05-15 |title=Can economic, land use and climatic stresses lead to famine, disease, warfare and death? Using Europe's calamitous 14th century as a parable for the modern age |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0921800910000479 |journal=Ecological Economics |series=Special Section: Ecological Economics and Environmental History |volume=70 |issue=7 |pages=1269–1279 |doi=10.1016/j.ecolecon.2010.02.010 |bibcode=2011EcoEc..70.1269F |issn=0921-8009|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
| [[Italian peninsula]]{{cn |date=April 2025 |reason=Source does not specify geographical extent: was it limited to the peninsula?}}
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| 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 80%, mainly because of famine and [[Plague of Justinian|plague]].{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} || [[Western Europe]] ||
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| 470 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Gaul]] ||
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| 535–536 || [[Volcanic winter of 536]] || Global ||
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| 544 || Famine in [[Myra]]<ref name=":9" /> || [[Byzantine Empire]] ||
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| 585 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Gaul]] ||
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|618–619
|Famine in [[Constantinople]]<ref name=":9" />
|[[Byzantine Empire]]
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| 639 || Famine in Arabia during the reign of [[Umar]]<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eACqCQAAQBAJ|title=Concise History of Islam|first1=Muzaffar Husain|last1=Syed|first2=Syed Saud|last2=Akhtar|first3=B. D.|last3=Usmani|date=14 September 2011|publisher=Vij Books India Pvt Ltd|isbn=9789382573470}}</ref> || [[Rashidun Caliphate|Arabia]] ||
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| 676–678 || Famine<ref name=":9" /> || [[Thessalonica]], [[Byzantine Empire]] ||
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| 698–700 || Famine || [[Ireland]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ó Gráda |first1=Cormac |title=Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future |date=2015 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton |isbn=978-1-4008-6581-9 |pages=25–29 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FICSBQAAQBAJ}}</ref>
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| 750s || Famine|| [[Al-Andalus|Islamic Spain (Al-Andalus)]]<ref>{{cite book |author=Glick |first=Thomas F. |date=2005 |title=Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages |url=http://libro.uca.edu/ics/ics5.htm |access-date=2014-08-13 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=9789047415589}}</ref>||
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| 762–764
| Famine associated with hard winters and drought<ref name=Newfield_2013>{{cite book |last=Newfield |first=Timothy P. |date=November 2013 |title=Crisis alimentarias en la Edad Media. Modelos, explicaciones y representaciones |chapter=The Contours, Frequency and Causation of Subsistence Crises in Carolingian Europe (750-950 CE) |chapter-url=https://www.academia.edu/5356174 |location=Spain |editor-last1=Benito I Monclús |editor-first1=Pere |publisher=Milenio Publicaciones |page=172 |isbn=978-84-9743-491-1 |access-date=2025-04-05}}</ref>
| [[Carolingian Europe]], the [[Balkans]], the [[Byzantine Empire]] and possibly north of the [[Black Sea]]
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| 779 || Famine<ref name=Newfield_2013/> || Northern [[Carolingian Europe]] and possibly [[Ireland]] ||
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| 791–794 || Famine, possibly associated with heavy rain,<ref name=Newfield_2013/> affecting England in 793{{sfn|Hoyle|2017|p=146}} || [[Carolingian Europe]] and [[England]] ||
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| 800–1000 || Severe [[drought]] killed millions of [[Maya civilization|Maya]] people due to famine and thirst and initiated a cascade of internal collapses that destroyed their civilization.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gill |first1=Richardson Benedict |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DRt5RnlBTq0C |title=The Great Maya Droughts: Water, Life, and Death |date=2001-04-01 |publisher=UNM Press |isbn=978-0826327741}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=September 2024}}|| Mayan areas of [[Mesoamerica]] || {{nts|1000000}}+
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| 805–807 || Famine associated with a hard winter and drought<ref name=Newfield_2013/> || Northern [[Carolingian Empire]] ||
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| 820–824 || Famine associated with heavy rain, hard winters, drought, hail and possibly cattle pestilence<ref name=Newfield_2013/> || [[Carolingian Empire]], possibly [[Ireland]], [[England]] and the [[Byzantine Empire]] ||
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| 841–845 || Famine associated with heavy rain and hard winters<ref name=Newfield_2013/> || Northern (and possibly southern) [[Carolingian Empire]], the [[Byzantine Empire]] and the [[Middle East]] ||
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| 867–869 || Famine associated with heavy rain, flooding and possibly cattle pestilence<ref name=Newfield_2013/> || Northern [[Carolingian Empire]] ||
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| 872–874 || Famine associated with heavy rain, hail, locusts, a hard winter, drought and Saharan sand<ref name=Newfield_2013/> || [[Carolingian Empire]] ||
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| 875–884
| [[List of peasant revolts|Peasant rebellion]] in China inspired by famine;<ref>Embree, Ainslie Thomas. (1988) ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Encyclopedia_of_Asian_History.html?id=N4TrAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y#:~:text=A%20collection%20of%20articles%20that%20survey%20the Encyclopedia of Asian History],'' Vol. 2, Scribner, p. 82, {{ISBN|9780684186191}}: "rebellion between 875 and 884 that devastated almost all of China except the modern province … caused by famine conditions, oppressive taxation,</ref><ref>Orient/West – Volume 7. p. 104": The central government was threatened in 875 by a peasant-supported rebellion which gained enough momentum to sweep through the empire. The rebellion, brought under control in 884, hastened the downfall of the empire by encouraging local suzerainty and … The rebellion was aided by drought, famine"</ref> [[Huang Chao]] captured capital
| [[Tang dynasty|China]]
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| 895–897 || Famine associated with hail and a hard winter<ref name=Newfield_2013/> || Northern [[Carolingian Europe]], [[Kingdom of England|England]] and [[Ireland]] ||
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| 927–928
| Famine caused by four months of frost<ref>{{cite book | last=Treadgold | first=Warren T. | year=1997 | title=A history of the Byzantine state and society | publisher=Stanford University Press | isbn=978-0-8047-2630-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nYbnr5XVbzUC&pg=PA480 | page=480}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1=Kazhdan | first1=Aleksandr Petrovich | year=1985 | title=Change in Byzantine culture in the eleventh and twelfth centuries | last2=Wharton | first2=Annabel Jane | publisher=[[University of California Press]] | isbn=978-0-520-05129-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_qlU37xo9LeUC | page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_qlU37xo9LeUC/page/n48 27]}}</ref>
| [[Byzantine Empire]]
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| 939–944
| Famine associated with hard winters, heavy rain, flooding, Saharan sand, locusts and possibly cattle pestilence<ref name=Newfield_2013/>
| Northern (and possibly southern) [[Carolingian Europe]], [[Ireland]] and the [[Middle East]]
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|942–944 
|Famine in the [[Yellow River]] Basin caused by severe drought and locust plagues. During the first month 5387 families fled, then approximately 10% of the remaining population starved to death.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Fei |first1=Jie |last2=Zhou |first2=Jie |date=2016-02-11 |title=The drought and locust plague of 942–944 AD in the Yellow River Basin, China |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618214009215 |journal=Quaternary International |series=Volcanic Activity and Human Society |volume=394 |pages=115–122 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2014.11.053 |bibcode=2016QuInt.394..115F |issn=1040-6182|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
|[[Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period|China]]
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| 963–968 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Ikhshidid dynasty|Egypt]] ||
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| 975–976 || Famine{{sfn|Hoyle|2017|p=146}} || [[England]] ||
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| 975–976 || Famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=190, 194}} || [[Iceland]] ||
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|996–997
|Famine in the [[Fatimid Caliphate]], with food price increases<ref name=":4">{{Citation |last=Rassi |first=Juliette |title=Several Natural Disasters in the Middle East (at the Beginning of the Eleventh Century) and Their Consequences |date=2017 |work=Historical Disaster Experiences: Towards a Comparative and Transcultural History of Disasters Across Asia and Europe |series=Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context |pages=63–79 |editor-last=Schenk |editor-first=Gerrit Jasper |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-49163-9_3 |access-date=2024-09-26 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-49163-9_3 |isbn=978-3-319-49163-9|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
|[[Fatimid Caliphate|Egypt]]
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|1004–1007 
|Famine, resulting in food scarcity, price increases and widespread illnesses. [[Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah|Caliph al-Ḥākim]] punished merchants who raised prices too high with the death penalty, and prohibited the slaughter of healthy cows which could be used for ploughing<ref name=":4" />
|''[[Maghreb]]'' area in Northwest Africa: [[Algeria]], [[Libya]], [[Mauritania]], [[Morocco]], [[Tunisia]] and [[Egypt]]
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| 1005–1006 || Famine, including in England{{sfn|Hoyle|2017|p=146}} || [[Middle Ages|Europe]]<ref>[http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1005] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110527115358/http://www.enotes.com/peoples-chronology/year-1005|date=May 27, 2011}}</ref>||
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|1010
|Famine in [[Nishapur|Nīshābūr]]<ref name=":4" />
|[[Ghaznavid Empire]]
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| 1016 || Famine throughout [[Europe]]<ref name=EB1911>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Famine |volume=10 |page=167}}</ref> || [[Middle Ages|Europe]] ||
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| 1021 || Famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=190, 194}} || [[Norway]] ||
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| 1025 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Fatimid Caliphate|Egypt]] ||
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|1031
|Famine caused by a sandstorm that destroyed crops, trees and provisions<ref name=":4" />
|[[Arabian Peninsula]]; Modern day [[Iraq]] and [[Saudi Arabia]] 
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| {{circa|1045}} || Famine{{sfn|Hoyle|2017|p=146}} || [[England]] ||
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| 1051 || Famine forced the [[Toltecs]] to migrate from a stricken region in what is now central Mexico<ref>[http://www.selfempowermentacademy.com.au/pdf/L3_LIVING_on_LIGHT/Glob_Journ/2-m&f.PDF] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090509211305/http://www.selfempowermentacademy.com.au/pdf/L3_LIVING_on_LIGHT/Glob_Journ/2-m%26f.PDF|date=May 9, 2009}}</ref>|| [[Toltec|Mexico]] (present day) ||
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| 1055–1056 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Fatimid Caliphate|Egypt]] ||
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| 1057–1058 || Famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=190, 194}} || [[Iceland]] ||
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| 1064–1072 || [[Mustansirite Hardship]]<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite book |last=Davis |first=Lee Allyn |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CRzMOYIuLJEC |title=Natural Disasters |date=2010 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=9781438118789 |page=120}}</ref><ref>''[[Encyclopædia Britannica|The Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' – Volume 9. p. 64</ref>|| [[Fatimid Caliphate|Egypt]] || {{nts|40000}}<ref name="ReferenceA" />
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| 1069–1070 || [[Harrying of the North]] || [[Kingdom of England|England]] || {{nts|100000}}
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| 1087 || Famine{{sfn|Hoyle|2017|p=146}} || [[England]] ||
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| 1097 || Famine and plague<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mitosyfraudes.org/Polit/Famines.html|title=FAEC - FEARFUL FAMINES OF THE PAST|website=www.mitosyfraudes.org}}</ref> || [[Kingdom of France|France]] || {{nts|100000}}
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| 1099–1101 || Probable famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=189, 194}} || [[Denmark]] ||
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| 1111 || Famine{{sfn|Hoyle|2017|p=146}} || [[England]] ||
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| 1118 || Famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=190, 194}} || [[Iceland]] ||
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| 1124–1126 || Famine in England, the Low Countries and northern France{{sfn|Hoyle|2017|pp=146, 164–165}} || [[Europe]] ||
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| 1143–1147 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Europe]] ||
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| 1150–1151 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Europe]] ||
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| 1150–1151 || Widespread famine due to wet/cold{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Heian period|Japan]] ||
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| 1153 || Local famine of unknown cause{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Heian period|Japan]] ||
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| 1155 || Widespread famine of unknown cause{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Heian period|Japan]] ||
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| 1161 || Widespread famine of unknown cause{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Heian period|Japan]] ||
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| 1161–1162 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Duchy of Aquitaine|Aquitaine]] ||
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| 1174–1175 || Local famine due to wet/cold{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Feudal Japan]] ||
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| 1180–1182 || [[Yōwa famine]]{{sfn|Farris|2006|pp=29–33}}|| [[Heian period|Japan]] || {{nts|42300}} in Kyoto
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| 1182 || Famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=190, 194}} || [[Norway]] ||
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| 1183 || Local famine of unknown cause{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Heian period|Japan]] ||
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| 1185 || Widespread famine due to drought{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Heian period|Japan]] ||
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| 1193–1198 || Famine{{sfn|Hoyle|2017|p=146}} || [[England]] ||
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| 1196–1197 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Europe]] ||
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| 1196–1198 || Probable famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=189, 194}} || [[Denmark]] ||
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| 1199–1202 || Famine due to the low water level of the Nile impacting food prices<ref name=":4" />|| [[Ayyubid dynasty|Egypt]] || {{nts|100000}}
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| 1201 || Local famine due to wet/cold{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Kamakura shogunate|Japan]] ||
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| 1206 || Widespread famine of unknown cause{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Kamakura shogunate |Japan]] ||
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| 1207–1213 || Famine(s), e.g. in 1207 and 1211–1213{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=190, 194}} || [[Norway]] ||
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| 1224–1226 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Europe]] ||
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| 1225–1226 || Probable famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=189, 194}} || [[Denmark]] ||
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| 1229–1232
| The [[Kanki famine]], possibly the worst famine in Japan's history.<ref>{{cite book|last=Farris|first=William Wayne|year=2009|title=Japan to 1600: a social and economic history|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-3379-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oEkewem1LBYC&pg=PA116|page=116}}</ref> Caused by volcanic eruptions.<ref name="O Grada17">{{harvnb|Ó Gráda|2009|p=17}}</ref>
| [[Kamakura shogunate|Japan]]
| {{nts|2000000}}{{cn|date=March 2025}}
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| 1230 || Famine in the [[Novgorod Republic]]{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} || [[Novgorod Republic]] ||
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| 1233 || Local famine due to wet/cold{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Kamakura shogunate|Japan]] ||
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| 1235 || Famine<ref name="Walford">{{cite journal |last=Walford |first=Cornelius |author-link=Cornelius Walford |date=September 1878 |title=The Famines of the World |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/2338978 |journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=433–526|doi=10.2307/2338978 |jstor=2338978 }}</ref>|| [[Kingdom of England|England]] || {{nts|20000}} in [[London]]
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|1252
|Famine<ref name=":5">{{Cite book |last1=Webb |first1=Patrick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4YujWY3vkccC&dq=1899+kenya+famine&pg=PA20 |title=Famine in Ethiopia: Policy Implications of Coping Failure at National and Household Levels |last2=Braun |first2=Joachim Von |last3=Yohannes |first3=Yisehac |date=1992 |publisher=Intl Food Policy Res Inst |isbn=978-0-89629-095-2 |pages=20 |language=en}}</ref>
|[[Ethiopia]]
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| 1252 || Widespread famine due to wet/cold{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Japan]] ||
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| 1255–1262<ref name=wcc.859>{{cite journal |last1=Ljungqvist |first1=Fredrik Charpentier |last2=Seim |first2=Andrea |last3=Collet |first3=Dominik |date=2023-10-03 |title=Famines in medieval and early modern Europe—Connecting climate and society |url=https://wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.859 |journal=WIREs Climate Change |volume=15 |issue=1 |pages=e859 |doi=10.1002/wcc.859 |access-date=2025-03-03|hdl=10852/106912 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
| Famine in Spain<ref name=wcc.859/> and Portugal<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.portugal-info.net/history/first-dynasty.htm |title=Portugal > History and Events |publisher=Portugal-info.net |date=2007-04-18 |access-date=2014-08-13}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=March 2025}}
| [[Iberian Peninsula]]
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| 1256
| Famine in Tuscany<ref name=eruzione_1257>{{cite journal |last1=Bufanio |first1=Vittoria |date=2022-10-30 |title=L'eruzione del 1257 tra cronisti e vulcanologi |language=it |url=https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/SSMD/article/view/18277 |journal=Studi di storia medioevale e di diplomatica |series=Nuova Serie |doi=10.54103/2611-318X/18277 |access-date=2025-03-06|doi-access=free }}</ref>
| [[Tuscany]]
|
|-
| 1256–1258 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Low Countries]] ||
|-
| 1256–1258 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1257–1260
| Shōga famine, aggravated by the [[1257 Samalas eruption]]<ref name=ngeo2875>{{cite journal |last1=Guillet |first1=Sébastien |last2=Corona |first2=Christophe |last3=Stoffel |first3=Markus |display-authors=etal |date=2017-01-23 |title=Climate response to the Samalas volcanic eruption in 1257 revealed by proxy records |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/ngeo2875 |journal=[[Nature Geoscience]] |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=123–128 |doi=10.1038/ngeo2875 |bibcode=2017NatGe..10..123G |access-date=2025-03-02}} Accepted manuscript version accessed on 2025-03-07 from https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/68817/1/Guillet_et_al_1257_1258_Nature_Geoscience_Format_Final.pdf.</ref>
| [[Japan]]
| 
|-
| 1258–1259<ref name=wcc.859/><ref name=ngeo2875/>
| Famine in England,<ref name=ngeo2875/><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Campbell |first1=Bruce M. S. |date=2017-11-01 |title=Global climates, the 1257 mega-eruption of Samalas volcano, Indonesia, and the English food crisis of 1258 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/transactions-of-the-royal-historical-society/article/abs/global-climates-the-1257-megaeruption-of-samalas-volcano-indonesia-and-the-english-food-crisis-of-1258/43CA14C235B2734513A7F89D661C784D |journal=Transactions of the Royal Historical Society |volume=27 |pages=87–121 |doi=10.1017/S0080440117000056 |access-date=2025-03-02|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Italy,<ref name=eruzione_1257/> France, the Holy Roman Empire and the Iberian Peninsula, aggravated by the [[1257 Samalas eruption]]<ref name=ngeo2875/>
| [[Western Europe]]
| 
|-
| 1263 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Ireland]] ||
|-
| 1264 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Mamluk Sultanate|Egypt]] ||
|-
| 1270–1271 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Ireland]] ||
|-
| 1271 || Widespread famine due to drought{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Japan]] ||
|-
| 1271–1272 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1273–1274 || Widespread famine due to drought{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=58}} || [[Japan]] ||
|-
| 1275–1277 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Italy]] ||
|-
| 1275–1299 || Collapse of the [[Ancestral Puebloans|Anasazi civilization]], widespread famine occurred<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.learner.org/interactives/collapse/chacocanyon.html |title=Collapse: Chaco Canyon |publisher=Learner.org |access-date=2014-08-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140817110634/http://learner.org/interactives/collapse/chacocanyon.html |archive-date=2014-08-17 }}</ref> || [[Ancestral Puebloans|United States]] ||
|-
| 1279 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1281–1282 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Central Europe]] ||
|-
| 1282 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1283 || Apparent severe famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=189–190}} || [[Denmark]] ||
|-
| 1285–1286 || Famine.{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} (Perhaps 1286 only.<ref name=wcc.859/>) || [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Italy]] ||
|-
| 1291 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> caused by years of drought and recorded in one chronicle{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=189–190}} || [[Sweden]]{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|p=190}} ||
|-
| 1294–1296 || Famine caused by sandstorm that covered plantations and destroyed crops.<ref name=":4" />|| [[Mamluk Sultanate|Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Yemen]] ||
|-
| 1294–1296 || Famine lasting 1294–1296 in Ireland and 1295–1296 in Great Britain<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[British Isles]] ||
|-
| 1300 || Famine due to the eruption of [[Hekla]]{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=190, 194}} || [[Iceland]] ||
|-
| 1301–1302 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
|-
| 1302–1303 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Italy]] ||
|-
| 1304 || Famine<ref name="Ruiz2">{{cite book |last=Ruiz |first=Teofilo F. |author-link=Teofilo Ruiz |title=Medieval Europe: Crisis and Renewal |publisher=The Teaching Company |isbn=1-56585-710-0 |chapter=An Age of Crisis: Hunger}}</ref>|| [[Kingdom of France|France]] ||
|-
| 1305 || Famine<ref name="Ruiz2" />|| [[Kingdom of France|France]] ||
|-
| 1308–1310 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1310 || Famine<ref name="Ruiz2" />|| [[Kingdom of France|France]] ||
|-
| 1310 || Probable famine and apparent drought{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=189–190}} || [[Denmark]] ||
|-
| 1311 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
|-
| 1311–1312 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Lombardy]], Italy ||
|-
| 1313 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Pistoia]], Tuscany, Italy ||
|-
|1314–1315
|Famine. Dikes collapsed, fields vanished, crops rotted, and livestock died in huge numbers due to the disease "Rinderpest". The price of wheat jumped "8 fold".<ref name=":3" />
|[[Kingdom of England|England]]
|
|-
| 1315–1317 or 1322 
| [[Great Famine of 1315–1317]]. Famine lasted from 1313–1317 in Spain and 1314–1316 in Russia/Ukraine.<ref name=wcc.859/> Elsewhere, famine began in 1315 and ended in either 1317 (Great Britain, France, the Low Countries,<ref name=wcc.859/> Denmark and Sweden{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=189–190}}) or 1318 (Central Europe<ref name=wcc.859/> and Ireland<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|p=183}}). 
| [[Europe]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/black_death.html |title=The Great Famine and the Black Death |publisher=Vlib.us |access-date=2014-08-13}}</ref>
| {{nts|7500000}}
|-
| 1319–1320 || [[Great Bovine Pestilence]] || [[Kingdom of England|England]] ||
|-
| 1321 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Kingdom of England|England]] ||
|-
| 1326–1330 || Famine in Italy{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} (possibly beginning in 1328<ref name=wcc.859/>), {{cn span|Spain and Ireland|date=March 2025}} || [[Europe]] ||
|-
| 1330–1331 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> with humid, rainy and stormy weather{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|p=183}} || [[Ireland]] ||
|-
| 1330–1332 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1330–1333 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Kingdom of France|France]] ||
|-
| 1333–1336 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
|-
| 1333–1337 || [[Chinese famine of 1333–1337]] || [[Yuan dynasty|China]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.norfolkesinet.org.uk/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqid=3358 |title=Projects and Events: 14th Century|publisher=Norfolkesinet.org.uk|access-date=2014-08-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160113065320/http://www.norfolkesinet.org.uk/pages/viewpage.asp?uniqid=3358|archive-date=2016-01-13}}</ref> || {{nts|6,000,000}}
|-
| 1338–1339 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> (possibly just 1339{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|p=183}}) || [[Ireland]] ||
|-
| 1339–1341 || Famine in Italy{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} (possibly ending in 1340<ref name=wcc.859/>), {{cn span|Spain and Ireland|date=March 2025}} || [[Europe]] ||
|-
| 1344–1345 || Famine in India, under the reign of [[Muhammad bin Tughluq]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Walsh |first=Judith E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iekF9X3OwwMC |title=A Brief History of India |date=2006 |publisher=Infobase Publishing |isbn=978-1-4381-0825-4 |language=en}}</ref>|| [[Tughlaq dynasty|India]] ||
|-
| 1346 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Ireland]] ||
|-
| 1346–1348
| Widespread European famine, particularly in the south, including Italy (1346–1347),{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} Spain (1346–1348) and France (1347)<ref name=wcc.859/>
| [[Europe]]
|
|-
| 1349–1351 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> affecting [[Kingdom of England|England]] (1351)<ref name="Ruiz2" /> and coinciding with the [[Black Death]]{{sfn|Hoyle|2017|p=150}} || [[Great Britain]] ||
|-
| 1349–1351 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Kingdom of France|France]] ||
|-
| 1352–1353 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Italy]] ||
|-
| {{cn span|1358–|date=March 2025}}1360 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Kingdom of France|France]] ||
|-
| 1361–1362 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1364–1366 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1368 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Italy]] ||
|-
| 1369 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Kingdom of England|England]] ||
|-
| 1369–1370 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Florence]], Tuscany, Italy ||
|-
| 1370 || Famine caused by harvest failure in 1369{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=191–192, 194}} || [[Norway]] ||
|-
| 1371 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1371 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Kingdom of France|France]] ||
|-
| 1374 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1374–1375 || Near pan-Mediterranean famine in France, Spain<ref name=wcc.859/> and Italy<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Europe]] ||
|-
| 1374–1375 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Mamluk Sultanate|Egypt]] ||
|-
| 1384–1385 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Italy]] ||
|-
| 1389 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Pistoia]], Tuscany, Italy ||
|-
| 1390–1391 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Kingdom of France|France]] ||
|-
| 1393 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Pistoia]], Tuscany, Italy ||
|-
| 1394–1396 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Mamluk Sultanate|Egypt]] ||
|-
| 1397 || Famine, with a windy, wet and cold summer and autumn{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|p=183}} || [[Ireland]] ||
|-
| 1396–1407 || The Durga Devi famine || [[Medieval India|India]]<ref>[http://bidar.nic.in/hist.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701082214/http://bidar.nic.in/hist.htm|date=July 1, 2007}}</ref><ref name=EB1911/> ||
|-
|1402–1404
|Famine<ref name=":8" />
|[[Ottoman Empire]]
|
|-
| 1403–1404 || Famine{{cn|date=March 2025}} || [[Mamluk Sultanate|Egypt]] ||
|-
| 1409 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1410 || Great famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|p=183}} || [[Ireland]] ||
|-
| 1410–1412 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Italy]] ||
|-
| 1420–1421 || Oei famine (due to drought)<ref name=geochemj.2.0417/> || [[Japan]] ||
|-
| 1420–1421 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Kingdom of France|France]] ||
|-
| 1420–1423 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1429–1432 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Kingdom of France|France]] ||
|-
| 1431 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1432–1434 || [[Famines in Czech lands|The Hungry Years]] || [[Lands of the Bohemian Crown|Czech Republic]] ||
|-
| 1434–1437 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Nordic countries]] ||
|-
| 1435 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
|-
| 1436–1440
| Famine in Russia/Ukraine (1436–1438), the Low Countries and Great Britain (1437–1438), France (1437–1439)<ref name=wcc.859/> and Germany and Switzerland (1437–1440){{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|p=117}}
| [[Europe]]
|
|-
| 1441
| Famine in [[Mayapan]]
| [[Maya civilization|Mexico]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/web/humanpast/summaries/ch16.html|title=Welcome to The Human Past|publisher=Thamesandhudsonusa.com|access-date=2014-08-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227032542/http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/web/humanPast/summaries/ch16.html|archive-date=2012-02-27}}</ref>
|
|-
| 1442–1445 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1446 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Nordic countries]] ||
|-
| 1447 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> (or hunger{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|p=183}}) || [[Ireland]] ||
|-
| 1447–1448 || Famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=192, 194}} || [[Sweden]] ||
|-
| 1450–1454
| Famine in the [[Aztec Empire]],<ref>{{citation|last=Trigger|first=Bruce G.|year=2003|title=Understanding early civilizations: a comparative study|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-82245-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZEX-yZOAG9IC&pg=PA387|page=387}}</ref> interpreted as the gods' need for sacrifices.<ref>{{citation |author=Carrasco |first=Davíd |title=Daily life of the Aztecs: people of the sun and earth |page=199 |year=1998 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ybEHUMVr1dgC&pg=PA199 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-313-29558-4}}</ref>
| [[Aztec Empire|Mexico]]
|
|-
| 1458 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=11–12}} || [[Italy in the Middle Ages|Italy]] ||
|-
| 1459–1461 || Kanshō famine{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=174}} (due to drought)<ref name=geochemj.2.0417/> || [[Japan]] || {{nts|82000}}{{cn|date=March 2025}}
|-
|1460
|The Deccan region faced significant famine, leading to severe food shortages.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1954 |title=Famines |url=https://gazetteers.maharashtra.gov.in/cultural.maharashtra.gov.in/english/gazetteer/Poona/PART%20IV/Chap%20(5)/Famines.htm |website=Pune District Gazetteer}}</ref>
|[[India]]
|
|-
| 1468 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1470 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Kingdom of France|France]] ||
|-
| 1470 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Nordic countries]] ||
|-
| 1472 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1472 || Famine in central [[Honshu]] due to drought{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=182}} || [[Japan]] ||
|-
| 1472–1474 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1475–1477 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
|-
| 1476 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1477 || Famine in central [[Honshu]]{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=182}} || [[Japan]] ||
|-
| 1481–1484 || Famine(s) in the Low Countries (1481–1482), France (1481–1483),<ref name=wcc.859/> the [[East of England]] (1481–1483){{sfn|Hoyle|2017|pp=145, 150}} and Italy (1482–1484)<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Western Europe]] ||
|-
| 1485 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1491–1492 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Low Countries]] ||
|-
| 1491–1492 || Famine{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=182}} || [[Kai Province]], Japan ||
|-
| 1492 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Ireland]] ||
|-
| 1493 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1497–1498 || Great famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|p=183}} (possibly just 1497{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|p=183}}) || [[Ireland]] ||
|-
| 1502–1505 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1503 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Nordic countries]] ||
|-
| 1504
| Famine during a drought<ref name=Vassberg>{{cite web |author=Vassberg |first=David |title=Land and Society in Golden Age Castile |url=http://libro.uca.edu/vassberg/land7.htm |access-date=2025-03-16 |publisher=Libro.uca.edu}}</ref>
| [[Spain]]
|
|-
| 1506–1508 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
|-
| 1512 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1513 || Famine during a drought<ref name=Vassberg/> || [[Murcia]], Spain ||
|-
| 1515 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[France]] ||
|-
| 1515–1516 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1516–1518 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Germany in the early modern period|Germany]] and [[Old Swiss Confederacy|Switzerland]]{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|p=117}} ||
|-
| 1518–1520 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1520–1523 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Nordic countries]] ||
|-
| 1521–1522 || Famine(s)<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[France]] and the [[Low Countries]] ||
|-
| 1521–1522
| Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> during a drought<ref name=Vassberg/>
| [[Andalusia]],<ref name=Vassberg/>{{sfn|Moreda|2017|pp=53–54}} Spain
|
|-
| 1523 || Great famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|p=183}} || [[Ireland]] ||
|-
| 1525 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1527–1532
| Famine(s) in Italy (1527–1529),<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} France (1527–1532,<ref name=wcc.859/> including [[Languedoc]] by 1528<ref name=Macfarlane_dimension>{{cite web |last1=Macfarlane |first1=Alan |url=http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/savage/A-FAM.PDF |title=The Dimension of Famine |year=2002 |access-date=2025-04-26}}</ref>), Spain (1528–1530)<ref name=wcc.859/> and Austria and Switzerland (1530–1531){{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|p=117}}
| [[Europe]]
|
|-
| 1533–1534 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1535 || [[Famines in Ethiopia|Famine in Ethiopia]] || [[Ethiopia]] ||
|-
| 1539–1540 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Malanima |first=Paolo |date=2018 |title=Italy in the Renaissance: a leading economy in the European context, 1350–1550 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ehr.12650 |journal=The Economic History Review |language=en |volume=71 |issue=1 |pages=3–30 |doi=10.1111/ehr.12650 |issn=0013-0117|url-access=subscription }}</ref>|| [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1539–1540
| Tenbun famine (due to rain)<ref name=geochemj.2.0417>{{cite journal |title=Controlling factors in stalagmite oxygen isotopic composition and the paleoprecipitation record for the last 1,100 years in Northeast Japan |journal=Geochemical Journal |date=2016 |volume=50 |page=e4 |doi=10.2343/geochemj.2.0417 |bibcode=2016GeocJ..50E...1K |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geochemj/50/2/50_2.0417/_article |accessdate=2025-03-14 |last1=Kato |first1=Hirokazu |last2=Yamada |first2=Tsutomu |issue=2 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
| [[Japan]]
|
|-
| 1540 || Famine during a drought<ref name=Vassberg/> || Spain ||
|-
| 1544–1545 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1545 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Kingdom of France|France]] ||
|-
| 1550–1551 || Famine in isolated areas of central [[Honshu]] due to an earthquake and typhoon{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=186}} || [[Japan]] ||
|-
| 1550–1552 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1556 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Ireland]] ||
|-
| 1556–1557 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Low Countries]] ||
|-
| 1556–1557 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> (perhaps affecting Denmark but not Sweden, and perhaps only in 1556{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=192, 194}}) || [[Nordic countries]]<ref name=wcc.859/> ||
|-
| 1557<ref name=wcc.859/>
| Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> in the [[Volga region]] and northern Russia<ref>{{cite book |last=Wheatcroft |first=Stephen |date=2017 |title=Famine in European History |chapter=10 - Eastern Europe (Russia and the USSR) |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/AF0D4CC64BA5F8E1518E757CC6002F27 |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=218 |isbn=9781107179936 |access-date=2025-03-23}}</ref>
| [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]]
|
|-
| 1557
| Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> throughout Spain due to a rainy winter, coinciding with a [[typhus]] outbreak{{sfn|Moreda|2017|pp=52–54}}
| [[Spain]]
|
|-
| 1557–1558 || Famine in [[Honshu]]{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=186}} || [[Japan]] ||
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| 1557–1559 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> coinciding with an [[influenza]] outbreak{{sfn|Hoyle|2017|pp=147–148, 150–151}} || [[Great Britain]] ||
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| 1558–1560 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Italy]] ||
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| 1560–1561 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
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| 1562
| Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> following a harsh winter in 1561<ref>{{cite book |last1=Béaur |first1=Gérard |last2=Chevet |first2=Jean-Michel |date=2017 |title=Famine in European History |chapter=4 - France |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/4762D2FBCBA62652FDFA72C0CC4A323F |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=75 |isbn=9781107179936 |access-date=2025-03-23}}</ref>
| [[Kingdom of France|France]]
|
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| 1565–1566 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Central Europe]] ||
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| 1566–1567 || Famine during a drought<ref name=Vassberg/> || [[Andalusia]], Spain ||
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| 1567–1570 || Famine in [[Harar]], combined with plague{{citation needed|date=September 2015}}. The Emir of Harar died. || [[Ethiopia]] ||
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| 1568–1574
| {{cn span|Pan-European famine|date=March 2025}} or famines affecting Russia and {{cn span|mostly east of|date=March 2025}} Ukraine (1568–1572),<ref name=wcc.859/> Italy (1569–1572),<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} Germany, Austria and Switzerland (1569–1574),{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|p=117}} the Nordic countries (1571–1572), the Low Countries (1572–1573) and France (1573–1574).<ref name=wcc.859/> Germany/Austria/Switzerland saw crop failures, plague and witch hunts in one of their most severe famines.{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|p=117}}
| [[Europe]]
|
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| 1573 || Famine due to drought{{sfn|Farris|2006|p=186}} || Western [[Japan]] ||
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| 1585–1589
| {{cn span|Pan-European famine|date=March 2025}} or famines, affecting Great Britain, France and the Low Countries (1585–1587),<ref name=wcc.859/> Italy (1586–1587)<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} and Ireland (1586–1589).<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|p=183}} In Ireland, this famine followed the [[Second Desmond Rebellion]].{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|pp=167–168, 183}}
| [[Western Europe]]
|-
| 1586
| Famine and drought. Rice prices skyrocketed and there was widespread population migration and starvation.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last1=Tian |first1=Fangyu |last2=Su |first2=Yun |last3=Gong |first3=Zijian |date=2024-08-01 |title=How did ancient China prevent the transition from extreme drought to famine? Taking Wanli Drought of the Ming dynasty as an example |journal=International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction |volume=110 |pages=104618 |doi=10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104618 |issn=2212-4209|doi-access=free |bibcode=2024IJDRR.11004618T }}</ref>
| [[Qishan County]], [[Shaanxi]] province, [[Ming dynasty|China]]
|
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| 1588 || Famine<ref name=":2" /> || [[Wei County]], [[Hebei]] province, [[Ming dynasty|China]] ||
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| 1589 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
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| 1590–1598{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|pp=9–10, 13–14}}
| Major European famine,{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|pp=9–10}} including Italy (1590–1593),<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}}{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=9}} the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway,{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=192–194, 210}} 1590–1597),<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=9}}{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=192–194, 210}} Russia/Ukraine (1591),<ref name=wcc.859/> Spain (1591–1595),<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=9}} France (1593 & 1598),{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=9}} Great Britain (either 1594–1598{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=9}} or 1597–1599<ref name=wcc.859/>), Germany and Austria (1594–1598).{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|p=117}} The degree to which this should be considered one widespread famine as opposed to many regional ones is unclear: it mainly affected southern Europe in 1590–1593, then central and northern Europe in 1594–1598. The famine may also be associated with a critical phase of the [[Little Ice Age]]. It caused the large-scale restructuring of European grain trade routes, which contributed to the [[Low Countries]]' avoiding this famine.{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=14}}
| [[Europe]]
|
|-
|1592–1594
|Famine during the [[Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598)]], known in Korea as the Kyegap Famine ({{Korean|hangul=계갑대기근|hanja=癸甲大飢饉}}).<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kim |first=Sung-Woo |date=2020 |title=The Imjin War of 1592 and the 1593-1594 Great Famine – Focused on the Case of the To Se-sun Family in Sŏngju county, Kyŏngsang Province |url=https://www.kci.go.kr/kciportal/ci/sereArticleSearch/ciSereArtiView.kci?sereArticleSearchBean.artiId=ART002573093 |journal=The Journal of Korean History |volume=188 |language=ko |issue=188 |pages=217–256 |doi=10.31791/JKH.2020.03.188.217 |issn=1226-296X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
|[[Joseon]] 
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| 1593–1600 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=11}} || [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]] ||
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| 1596 || Famine<ref name=Appleby_1980/> || [[India]] ||
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| 1599–1600 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
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| 1600–1601 || Famine in [[Emilia (region)|Emilia]] and southern [[Lombardy]]{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=6}} || [[Italy]] ||
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| 1600–1603 || Famine linked to the [[Nine Years' War (Ireland)|Nine Years' War]]{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|pp=167, 183}} || [[Ireland]] || 
|-
| 1601–1602 || Cooling, famine and epidemics following the eruption of [[Huaynaputina]] in 1600<ref name=Huaynaputina_Fei/> || [[Guizhou]] and [[Shanxi]] provinces, [[Ming dynasty|China]] || 
|-
| 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 the country's population killed; see [[Russian famine of 1601–1603]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h20russ.htm |title=Russia before Peter the Great |publisher=Fsmitha.com |access-date=2014-08-13}}</ref> The same famine killed about half of the [[Estonia]]n population.
| [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]]
| {{nts|2000000}}
|-
| 1601–1603<ref name=wcc.859/>
| Famine in 1601 in Finland{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|p=193}} and in 1602–1603 in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway,{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=192–194}} following the eruption of [[Huaynaputina]] in 1600{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|p=187}}
| [[Nordic countries]]
| 
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| 1602 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Central Europe]] ||
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| 1602 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Great Britain]] ||
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| 1605–1607 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
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| 1607–1608 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Italy]] ||
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| 1608 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
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| 1615–1616 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
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| 1616–1623 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=11}} || [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]] ||
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| 1618–1622 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| {{cn span|1618–1648|date=April 2025|reason=Probably too imprecise}}
| Famines {{cn span|in Europe|date=April 2025|reason=Probably too imprecise}} caused by the [[Thirty Years' War]], including in 1620–1623 in Germany (often attributed to ''[[Kipper und Wipper]]'', violent conflict, the closing of borders and trade routes, and requisitioning by armies),{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|pp=105, 117}} possibly in 1628–1630 in [[Jutland]]{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|p=195}} and in 1635–1636 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In the 1630s, famine in these countries was frequent but more local, often resulting from occupation or sieges.{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|pp=105, 117}}
| [[Europe]]
|
|-
| 1619
| Famine in Japan. During the [[Edo period]], there were 154 famines, of which 21 were widespread and serious.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.shikokuhenrotrail.com/japanhistory/edohistory.html |title=A Chronology of Japanese History |publisher=Shikokuhenrotrail.com |access-date=2014-08-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120625110809/http://www.shikokuhenrotrail.com/japanhistory/edohistory.html |archive-date=2012-06-25 }}</ref>
| [[Japan]]
|
|-
| 1621–1624 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Nordic countries]] ||
|-
| 1622–1624
| Famine (possibly 1623–1625 in Great Britain<ref name=wcc.859/>) in [[North West England]], Ireland,<ref name=Hoyle_1622/> north-west [[Wales]] (1622–1623){{sfn|Hoyle|2017|pp=144, 156}} and Scotland<ref name=Hoyle_1622/> (where it hit in 1623, following harvest failures in the autumns of 1621–1622),<ref>{{cite book |last=Flinn |first=Michael |year=1977 |title=Scottish population history from the seventeenth century to the 1930s |url=https://archive.org/details/scottishpopulati0000unse/page/6/mode/2up?q=famine |url-access=registration |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page=6 |isbn=0521211735 |access-date=2025-04-04}}</ref> due to wet and cold weather.<ref name=Hoyle_1622>{{cite journal |last1=Hoyle |first1=Richard W. |date=2010-11-01 |title=Famine as agricultural catastrophe: the crisis of 1622–4 in east Lancashire |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00510.x |journal=The Economic History Review |volume=63 |issue=4 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd |pages=974–1002 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00510.x |pmid=21140548 |access-date=2025-04-04|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
| [[British Isles]]
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| 1623 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
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| 1625–1626 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Low Countries]] ||
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| 1625–1630
| Famine(s) involving plague and witch hunts, due to exceptionally bad harvests{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|pp=105, 117}}
| [[Archduchy of Austria|Austria]] and [[Germany in the early modern period|Germany]]
|
|-
|1626–1627
|Pyŏngjŏng Famine ({{Korean|hangul=병정대기근|hanja=丙丁大飢饉}})<ref>{{Cite web |last=오 |first=항녕 |date=2014-05-23 |title=민심 잃은 정부, 재해나 사건 때문이 아니야! |url=https://www.pressian.com/pages/articles/117411 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=[[Pressian]] |language=ko}}</ref>
|[[Joseon]] 
|
|-
| 1628–1630 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> or apparent famine in Sweden (1630), with people eating [[Bark (botany)|bark]] in the south of Sweden{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|p=193}} || [[Nordic countries]]<ref name=wcc.859/> ||
|-
| 1628–1632 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1629–1631 || Famine.<ref name=wcc.859/> According to the prevailing literature, this was England's last famine.<ref name=Alfani2018/> || [[Great Britain]] ||
|-
| 1630–1631 || Famine in Northwest China || [[China]] ||
|-
| 1630–1631 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
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| 1630–1632 || [[Deccan famine of 1630–1632]] || [[India]] || {{nts|7400000}}
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| 1630–1632 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=11}} || [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]] ||
|-
| 1631–1632 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> (possibly 1630–1631<ref name=Appleby_1980/>) || [[France]] ||
|-
| 1633–1634 || Famine in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Sweden's Baltic possessions{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=193–194, 210}} || [[Swedish Empire]] and [[Norway]] ||
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| 1636 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
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| 1640–1643 || [[Kan'ei Great Famine]] || [[Japan]] || {{nts|50000}}–{{nts|100000}}
|-
| 1641–1643 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Nordic countries]] ||
|-
| 1641–1652<ref name=wcc.859/>
| A succession of famines related to the [[Irish Confederate Wars]]. Deaths were concentrated in the more sparsely populated [[Ulster]] and north-east [[Connacht]] in the 1640s; afterwards, the south was worst affected and plague exacerbated the famine.{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|pp=167–168, 183}}
| [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]]
|
|-
| 1647–1649
| Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> including in northern England (1649)<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P7P_AwAAQBAJ|title=Climate and History: Studies in Interdisciplinary History|first1=Robert I.|last1=Rotberg|first2=Theodore K.|last2=Rabb|date=July 14, 2014|publisher=Princeton University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9781400854103}}</ref><ref name=Appleby_1980/>
| [[Great Britain]]
|
|-
| 1647–1652 || Famine in Spain<ref name=wcc.859/> and Portugal{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=11}} || [[Iberian Peninsula]] ||
|-
| 1648–1649 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=4–5, 24}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1648–1651 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Low Countries]] ||
|-
| 1648–1652
| Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> in the east (1650–1652),<ref name="ReferenceB">Ang, Armando, (2009) ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Overpopulated_Philippines.html?id=zgvsAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y#:~:text=Overpopulated%20Philippines.%20Armando%20Ang, Overpopulated Philippines],'' p. 67, {{ISBN|9789719268888}}</ref> possibly 1649–1652.<ref name=Appleby_1980/>
| [[France]]
|
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| 1648–1660 || [[Deluge (history)|The Deluge]] saw Poland lose an estimated 1/3 of its population due to wars, famine, and [[Plague (disease)|plague]]{{citation needed|date=July 2014}} || [[Poland]] ||
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| 1650–1652 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1650–1652
| Famine due to severe crop failures in 1650 and 1651. Grain exports were banned and grain was imported from the [[Baltic states]]. The [[crude death rate]] was over twice the normal value in the east in 1650, and in the north, middle and east in 1651–1652.{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194–195, 210}}
| [[Sweden]]
| 
|-
| 1651–1652
| Famine due to exceptionally bad harvests{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|pp=105, 117}}
| [[Germany in the early modern period|Germany]]
|
|-
| 1651–1653
| Famine throughout much of Ireland during the [[Cromwellian conquest of Ireland#Guerrilla warfare, famine and plague|Cromwellian conquest of Ireland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ashorthistory/archive/intro99.shtml |website=BBC |title=A Short History of Ireland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101050458/http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/ashorthistory/archive/intro99.shtml |archive-date=1 January 2009 |access-date=18 April 2023}}</ref> The more densely populated south was worst affected, and plague exacerbated the famine.{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|p=168}}
| [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]]
|
|-
| 1657–1663 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=11}} || [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]] ||
|-
| 1659–1662
| Famine(s) in Italy{{dubious|reason=This is absent from Alfani's works as of 2017, cited by the source.|date=April 2025}} and Spain (1659–1662), and in France, Central Europe and the Low Countries (1661–1662)<ref name=wcc.859/>
| [[Europe]]
|
|-
| 1661 || Famine in India, due to lack of any rainfall for two years<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ayton.id.au/gary/History/H_C17.htm#Asia: |title=The 17th Century |publisher=Ayton.id.au |access-date=2014-08-13}}</ref><ref name=EB1911/> || [[India]] ||
|-
| 1670–1671 || [[Kyungshin Famine]] || [[Joseon]] || {{nts|1000000}}<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-04-17 |title=대기근을 함께 넘어온 동반자… 사람이 살아야 돼지도 산다 |url=http://www.kbmaeil.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=812904 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=경북매일 |language=ko}}</ref>–{{nts|1500000}}
|-
| 1672 || Famine in southern Italy{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=4, 6, 15, 19}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1674 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
|-
| 1674–1676 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Low Countries]] ||
|-
| 1674–1677 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Nordic countries]] ||
|-
| 1675–1677 || Famine affecting northern and central Sweden (1675), inland and coastal Norway (1676) and Denmark (1676–1677){{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194–195}} || [[Scandinavia]]
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| 1675–1678 || Famine{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=11}} || [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portugal]] ||
|-
| 1676 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[France]] ||
|-
| 1677 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Tsardom of Russia|Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
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| 1678–1679 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=4, 10, 15, 22}} || [[Italy]] ||
|-
| 1678–1685 || Famine{{cn span|s and plague|date=July 2014}}<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
|-
| 1680 || Famine in [[Sardinia]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/351/italian%20states.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030921110237/http://history.wisc.edu/sommerville/351/italian%20states.htm |archive-date=2003-09-21 |title=Italian States in the Seventeenth Century |publisher=History.wisc.edu |access-date=2014-08-13 }}</ref> || [[Italy]] (present day) || {{nts|80000}}<ref>Dyson, Stephen L; Rowland, Robert J (2007). A''rchaeology and history in Sardinia from the Stone Age to the Middle Ages: shepherds, sailors & conquerors.'' Philadelphia: UPenn Museum of Archaeology. p. 136. {{ISBN|1-934536-02-4}}.</ref>
|-
| 1680–1682 || Enpo-Tenna famine (due to rain)<ref name=geochemj.2.0417/> || [[Japan]] ||
|-
| 1680s || Famine in [[Sahel]]<ref name="ReferenceB" /> || [[West Africa]] ||
|-
| 1690s
| [[Seven Ill Years]] – a famine which killed 5–15% of the population<ref>Cullen, Karen J. (2010) ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Famine_in_Scotland_the_Ill_Years_of_the.html?id=zBWrBgAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y#:~:text=This%20book%20examines%20the%20climatic%20and Famine in Scotland - the “Ill Years” of the 1690s.]'' Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748641840.</ref> (possibly 1697–1699<ref name=wcc.859/>)
| [[Scotland]]
| {{nts|60000}}–{{nts|180000}}
|-
| 1691–1695
| Particularly severe famine due to severe rain and cold, which reduced harvests{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|pp=106, 117}}
| [[Germany in the early modern period|Germany]], [[Archduchy of Austria|Austria]] and [[Old Swiss Confederacy|Switzerland]]
|
|-
| 1692–1694 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Low Countries]] ||
|-
| 1693–1694
| {{ill|Great Famine of 1693–1694|fr|Grande famine de 1693-1694}}
| [[Kingdom of France|France]]
| {{nts|700000}}–{{nts|1300000}}<ref name=Appleby_1980/><ref name="Ograda2002">{{Citation|last1=Ó Gráda|first1=Cormac|last2=Chevet|first2=Jean-Michel|year=2002|title=Famine And Market In ''Ancient Régime'' France|journal=The Journal of Economic History|volume=62|issue=3|pages=706–33|doi=10.1017/S0022050702001055|doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |pmid=17494233|hdl=10197/368|s2cid=8036361|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
|-
| 1693–1697
| Major European famine<ref name=Alfani2018/> affecting Germany, Austria and Switzerland (1691–1695),{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|pp=106, 117}} the Low Countries (1692–1694),<ref name=wcc.859/> France ({{ill|Great Famine of 1693–1694|fr|Grande famine de 1693-1694}}),<ref name=Alfani2018/> Italy (1693–1695<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=4, 6, 8–10, 15, 19, 22}}), where it was second only to the 1590s famine,<ref name=Alfani2018/> Portugal (1693–1697),{{sfn|Alfani|Ó Gráda|2017a|p=11}} Spain (1694–1699),<ref name=wcc.859/> Finland and Estonia ([[Great Famine of 1695–1697]]),<ref name=Alfani2018>{{cite journal |last1=Alfani |first1=Guido |last2=Ó Gráda |first2=Cormac |date=2018-06-01 |title=The timing and causes of famines in Europe |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-018-0078-0 |journal=Nature Sustainability |volume=1 |issue=6 |pages=283–288 |doi=10.1038/s41893-018-0078-0 |bibcode=2018NatSu...1..283A |access-date=2025-04-23|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Russia/Ukraine (1695–1697),<ref name=wcc.859/> Norway (1696) and Sweden (1696–1698){{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 196}} and Great Britain ([[Seven Ill Years]], 1697–1699)<ref name=wcc.859/>
| [[Europe]]
|
|-
| 1694–1699 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
|-
| 1695–1696 || First Genroku famine (due to rain)<ref name=geochemj.2.0417/> || [[Japan]] ||
|-
| 1695–1697
| [[Great Famine of Estonia]], which killed about a fifth of the population.
| [[Swedish Estonia]] and [[Swedish Livonia]]
| {{nts|70000}}–{{nts|100000}}
|-
| 1695–1698
| [[Great Famine of 1695–1697]], including the [[Great Famine of Estonia]]. Famine also hit Norway (1696){{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 196}} and [[Sweden]] (1696–1698,{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 196}} {{cn span|80,000–100,000 dead|date=March 2025}})
| [[Swedish Empire]] and [[Norway]]
| {{nts|150000}} in Finland
|-
| 1696 || Famine in [[Aleppo]]<ref name=":8" /> || [[Ottoman Empire]] ||
|-
|1696–1699
|{{Ill|Ŭlbyŏng famine|ko|을병대기근}}
|[[Joseon]] 
|{{nts|1410000}} per official ''[[Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty|Annals]]'', but possibly higher.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-16 |title='굶주린 엄마가 죽은 남매 삶아먹어'…한반도 덮친 '대재앙' 실화라니 [서울지리지] |url=https://www.mk.co.kr/news/culture/10921158 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=매일경제 |language=ko}}</ref>
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| 1698–1699 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Low Countries]] ||
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| 1698–1701
| Famine due to severe rain and cold, which reduced harvests{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|pp=106, 117}}
| [[Germany in the early modern period|Germany]], [[Archduchy of Austria|Austria]] and [[Old Swiss Confederacy|Switzerland]]
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| 1700 || Famine, with mortality around 35% above the normal rate{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 196}} || [[Denmark]] ||
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| 1701–1703 || Second Genroku famine (due to rain)<ref name=geochemj.2.0417/> || [[Japan]] ||
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| 1702–1704 || Famine in [[Deccan Plateau|Deccan]]<ref name="Sharma, S. pg.246">Sharma, S. Rice: Origin, Antiquity and History "1702–1704 famine in Deccan killed two million people..." p. 246</ref> || [[India]] || {{nts|2000000}}<ref name="Sharma, S. pg.246" />
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| 1706–1711 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Spain]] ||
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| 1708–1711<ref name=Alfani2018/>
| Famine in Spain (1706–1711), the Low Countries (1708–1710),<ref name=wcc.859/> Italy (1709{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|p=4}} or 1708–1709<ref name=wcc.859/>), France (1709–1710),<ref name=wcc.859/> probably Sweden and Finland (1709–1710, coinciding with the [[Great Northern War]] and the [[Great Northern War plague outbreak]]), Denmark (1710){{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 196–197}} and Germany and Austria (1709–1712).{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|pp=106, 117}}
| [[Europe]]
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| 1708–1711 || Famine and disease in [[East Prussia]] killed 250,000 people or 41% of its population.<ref name=Macfarlane_dimension/> 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.<ref>Andreas Kossert, ''Ostpreußen. Geschichte und Mythos'', 2007 Pantheon Verlag, PDF edition, p. 99.</ref> The [[Great Northern War plague outbreak]] of 1708–1712 also affected East Prussia. || [[East Prussia]] || {{nts|250000}}
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| 1709–1710
| The {{ill|Great Famine of 1709|fr|Grande famine de 1709}}
| [[France]]<ref name=Appleby_1980/><ref>{{cite web |last=Mandia |first=S |title=The Little Ice Age in Europe |url=http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/little_ice_age.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822223556/http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/little_ice_age.html |archive-date=2008-08-22 |access-date=2014-08-13 |publisher=sunysuffolk.edu}}</ref>
| {{nts|600000}}
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| 1709–1712
| Famine following the ''Großer Winter'' (Great Winter) of 1708–1709, coinciding with the [[Palatines#The_Great_Palatine_Migration_of_1709|Great Palatine Migration of 1709]]{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|pp=106, 117}}
| [[Germany in the early modern period|Germany]] and [[Archduchy of Austria|Austria]]
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| 1714–1715 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Central Europe]] ||
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| 1716 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=4, 10}} || [[Italy]] ||
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| 1717 || Famine in the north and west{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 196, 210}} || [[Sweden]] ||
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| 1718–1719 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[France]] ||
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| 1719 || High mortality probably connected to famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 197}} || [[Denmark]] ||
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| 1719–1721 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Central Europe]] ||
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| 1721–1724 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/> || [[Russian Empire|Russia]]/[[Ukraine]] ||
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| 1722 || Famine || [[Arabia]]<ref>{{cite journal|title=Climatic fluctuation and natural disasters in Arabia between mid-17th and early 20th Centuries |date=1995-09-01 |doi=10.1007/BF00814902 |volume=37 |journal=GeoJournal |pages=176–180|last1=Abdulla |first1=Muhammad A. H. |issue=1 |bibcode=1995GeoJo..37..176A |s2cid=153628431 }}</ref> ||
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| 1724 || Famine<ref name=wcc.859/>{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=4, 10}} || [[Italy]] ||
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| 1724–1725 || Famine{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|p=117}} || [[Germany in the early modern period|Germany]] ||
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| 1727–1728
| Perhaps England's last famine. Limited to a few parishes,<ref name=Appleby_1980>{{cite journal|jstor=203063|title=Epidemics and Famine in the Little Ice Age|first=Andrew B.|last=Appleby|date=Spring 1980|journal=The Journal of Interdisciplinary History|volume=10|issue=4|pages=643–63|doi=10.2307/203063}}</ref> there were food riots and increased mortality, but contemporaries did not consider this a famine, and the prevailing literature considers the 1629–1631 famine England's last.<ref name=Alfani2018/>
| [[The Midlands]], England
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| 1728–1730 || High mortality probably connected to famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 197}} || [[Denmark]] ||
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| 1730 || Famine<ref name=Macfarlane_dimension/> || [[Silesia]] ||
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| 1730s || Famine in [[Damascus]]<ref name=":8" /> || [[Ottoman Empire]] ||
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| 1732–1733 || [[Kyōhō famine]] || [[Japan]] || {{nts|12172}}–{{nts|169000}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kurumenmon.com/tanusimaru/kyouhokikin_musiokuri.html|title=享保の大飢饉 江戸時代中期に起こった飢饉で、江戸四大飢饉（寛永・享保・天明・天保）の一つ。}}{{dead link|date=March 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
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| 1738–1756 || Famine in West Africa, half the population of [[Timbuktu]] died of starvation<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ag.arizona.edu/~lmilich/desclim.html|title=Len Milich: Anthropogenic Desertification vs 'Natural' Climate Trends|publisher=Ag.arizona.edu|date=1997-08-10|access-date=2014-08-13}}</ref> || [[West Africa]] ||
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| 1739–1740 || Famine associated with extremely cold winter(s) (''Große Kälte''){{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|pp=106, 117}} || [[Germany in the early modern period|Germany]] and [[Archduchy of Austria|Austria]] ||
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| 1740–1741 || [[Irish Famine (1740–1741)]] || [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]] || {{nts|300,000}}–{{nts|480,000}}
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| 1740–1743 || Famine in central Sweden (1740), eastern Norway (1742), northern and central Sweden (1743) and probably Denmark (1740–1742){{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 196–198}} || [[Scandinavia]] ||
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| 1750–1756 || Famine in the Senegambia region<ref>{{citation|last=Searing|first=James F.|year=2003|title=West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: The Senegal River Valley, 1700–1860|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-53452-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1P_4AzEdGgUC&pg=PA132|page=132}}</ref> || [[Senegal]], [[Gambia]] (present day) ||
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| 1755–1757 || Horeki famine (due to rain)<ref name=geochemj.2.0417/> || [[Japan]] ||
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| 1755–1758 || Famine coinciding with crop failures and the [[Seven Years' War]]{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|p=117}} || [[Germany in the early modern period|Germany]] ||
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| 1756–1757 || Partial famine and influenza epidemic. There was a modest public relief effort and a temporary embargo on [[Alcohol distillation|distilling]].{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|pp=173, 180, 183}} || [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]] || 
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| 1757 || Famine<ref name=":8" /> || [[Syria]] ||
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| 1758 || Regional famine following crop failures in 1756–1757, with high mortality also affecting other counties{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=204–205, 210}} || [[Kopparberg County]], Sweden ||
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| 1763 || Regional famine, with high mortality also affecting other counties{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=204–205, 210}} || [[Gothenburg and Bohus County]], Sweden ||
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| 1763–1764 || High mortality probably connected to famine and coinciding with an influenza pandemic{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 197}} || [[Denmark]] ||
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| 1764 || Famine in Italy (including the [[Kingdom of Naples]]<ref>{{cite EBO |last1=Marino |first1=John A. |last2=Berengo |first2=Marino |last3=Clark |first3=Martin |display-authors=2 |title=Italy - Enlightenment, Reform, Unification |url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Italy/The-era-of-Enlightenment-reform#ref27717 |access-date=2025-03-15}}</ref>) during a period of drought{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=4, 9–10, 15–16, 19, 24}} || [[Italy]] ||
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| 1765 || Famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|p=198}} || [[Norway]] ||
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| 1766 || Smaller famine{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|pp=173}} || [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]] || 
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| 1767 || Famine during a period of drought{{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=4, 9–10, 15–16, 19, 24}} || [[Italy]] ||
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| 1769–1773 || [[Great Bengal famine of 1770]],<ref name=EB1911/> 10 million dead (one third of population) || [[India]], [[Bangladesh]] (present day) || {{nts|10000000}}
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| 1770–1772
| Severe famine in German-speaking lands and most neighbouring countries, due to a series of harvest failures. Heavy rain had affected an area stretching from France to Poland and from Scandinavia to Switzerland, impeding the storage and transportation of grain. Epidemic disease resulted from malnutrition and migration. In the [[Ore Mountains]] and Bohemia, around 200,000 people (10% of the population) either died or fled. The famine provoked migration, plus changes in education, economics, welfare and medicine.{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|pp=106–109, 117}} See also: [[Famines in Czech lands]].
| [[Germany in the early modern period|Germany]], [[Archduchy of Austria|Austria]], [[Old Swiss Confederacy|Switzerland]] and [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]]
| {{nts|60000}} in [[Electorate of Saxony|Saxony]]{{sfn|Collet|Krämer|2017|pp=106–107}}
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| 1771–1773
| Famine in Norway (1771–1773),{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 198}} central Sweden (1772–1773) and Finland.{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 196–197, 202–204}} Norway saw a mortality crisis during 1771–1773, and famine in the east in 1773.{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|p=198}} In Sweden, mortailty peaked in 1773, with about half of excess mortality due to dysentery.{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|p=202}}
| [[Nordic countries]]
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|1776
|Famine following a series of hurricanes that struck the island<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Horan |first=Joseph |date=2010 |title=The Colonial Famine Plot: Slavery, Free Trade, and Empire in the French Atlantic, 1763–1791 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-review-of-social-history/article/colonial-famine-plot-slavery-free-trade-and-empire-in-the-french-atlantic-17631791/6803E077CA2253E26EA869ADB42FBDF0 |journal=International Review of Social History |language=en |volume=55 |issue=S18 |pages=103–121 |doi=10.1017/S0020859010000519 |issn=1469-512X}}</ref>
|[[Martinique]]
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| 1779 || Famine in [[Rabat]] || [[Morocco]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ub.es/geocrit/locust.htm |title=The locust plague |publisher=Ub.es |access-date=2014-08-13}}</ref> ||
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| 1782 || Famine in [[Karahisar]]<ref name=":8" /> || [[Ottoman Empire]] ||
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| 1782–1784 || Famine leading to an embargo on food exports from June 1783–January 1784{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|pp=173, 180, 183}} || [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]] ||
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| 1782–1788 || [[Great Tenmei famine]] || [[Japan]] || {{nts|20000}}–{{nts|920000}}
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| 1783–1784 || [[Chalisa famine]] || [[India]] || {{nts|11000000}}<ref>{{Citation|last=Grove|first=Richard H.|title=The Great El Nino of 1789–93 and its Global Consequences: Reconstructing an Extreme Climate Event in World Environmental History|journal=The Medieval History Journal|year=2007|volume=10|issue=1–2|page=80|doi=10.1177/097194580701000203|s2cid=162783898|hdl=1885/51009|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
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| 1783–1785
| Famine in Iceland caused by the eruption of [[Laki]] killed around one-fifth<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-257941/Haze-Famine|title=Haze Famine (Icelandic history)|publisher=Britannica.com|access-date=2014-08-13}}</ref> or 26%{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=198–199}} of Iceland's population and 80% of livestock. Restrictions on fishing prevented most Icelanders from adopting fishing as an alternative to farming.{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=198–199}}
| [[Iceland]]
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| 1784 || Widespread famine throughout Egypt, one-sixth of the population died<ref>{{cite web |date=22 November 2006 |title=Icelandic Volcano Caused Historic Famine In Egypt, Study Shows |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061121232204.htm |access-date=2014-08-13 |publisher=ScienceDaily}}</ref>|| [[Egypt]] ||
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| 1784–1785 || Famine in Tunisia<ref>{{Cite book |last=Faroqhi |first=Suraiya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c00jmTrjzAoC&pg=PA651 |title=An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire |date=1997-04-28 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-57455-6 |pages=651 |language=en}}</ref>|| [[Tunisia]] ||
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| {{circa|1785}} || Famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|p=198}} || [[Norway]] ||
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| 1786–1787 || The last famine in Denmark, following bad harvests in 1785–1786. Due to grain imports, Copenhagen was less affected than the rest of Denmark.{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=197–198}} || [[Denmark]] ||
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| 1788 || The two years previous to the [[Causes of the French Revolution|French Revolution]] saw bad harvests and harsh winters, possibly because of a strong [[El Niño]] cycle<ref name="Grove1998">{{Citation|last=Grove|first=Richard H.|year=1998|title=Global Impact of the 1789–93 El Niño|journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]|volume=393|issue=6683|pages=318–19|doi=10.1038/30636|bibcode=1998Natur.393..318G|s2cid=205000683}}</ref> or caused by the 1783 [[Laki]] eruption in [[Iceland]].<ref name="Wood1992">{{Citation |last=Wood |first=C. A. |title=The Year Without a Summer? |pages=58–77 |year=1992 |editor=Harrington, C.R. |url=https://archive.org/details/yearwithoutsumme1992hari |chapter=The climatic effects of the 1783 Laki eruption |location=Ottawa |publisher=Canadian Museum of Nature}}</ref><ref name="Neumann1977">{{Citation|last=Neumann |first=J.|year=1977|title=Great Historical Events that were Significantly Affected by the Weather: 2, The Year Leading to the Revolution of 1789 in France|journal=Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society|volume=58|issue=2|pages=163–68|doi=10.1175/1520-0477(1977)058<0163:GHETWS>2.0.CO;2|bibcode=1977BAMS...58..163N|issn=1520-0477|doi-access=free}}</ref> || [[France]] ||
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| 1789 || [[Famines in Ethiopia|Famine in Ethiopia]] afflicted the [[Amhara Region|Amhara]] and [[Tigray Region]]s || [[Ethiopia]] ||
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| 1789–1793 || [[Doji bara famine]] or Skull famine || [[India]] || {{nts|11000000}}
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| 1796 || Famine caused by locusts<ref name=":5" /> || Northern [[Ethiopia]] ||
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| 1799–1800 || Famine in [[Diyarbakır]]<ref name=":8" /> || [[Ottoman Empire]] ||
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| 1799–1801 || Famine and disease. Emergency rice and maize imports were bought from the United States.{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|pp=173, 180, 183–184}} || [[Ireland]] || {{nts|40000}}
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| 1800 || Regional famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=204, 210}} || [[Jämtland County]], Sweden ||
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| 1801 || Famine (during a food crisis in [[Milan]] lasting 1799–1801){{sfn|Alfani|Mocarelli|Strangio|2015|pp=4, 10, 23}} || [[Italy]] ||
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| 1801 || Regional famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|p=204}} || [[Västerbotten County]], Sweden ||
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| 1804–1872, 1913 || A series of 14 [[famines in Austrian Galicia]] || [[Poland]], [[Ukraine]] (present day) || {{nts|400000}}–{{nts|550000}}
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| 1808 || Regional famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|p=204}} || [[Skaraborg County]], Sweden ||
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| 1809 || Regional famines{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=204–205, 210}} || [[Jämtland County|Jämtland]] and [[Västerbotten County|Västerbotten]] counties, Sweden ||
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|1809–1815
|Crop failure due to dry weather conditions.
|[[Joseon]] (Korea)
|{{nts|2000000}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Karlsson |first=Anders |date=2007 |title=Famine Relief, Social Order, and State Performance in Late Chosŏn Korea |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/139/article/416555 |journal=Journal of Korean Studies |volume=12 |issue=1 |pages=114–116 |doi=10.1353/jks.2007.0009 |issn=2158-1665|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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| 1811–1812 || Famine devastated [[Madrid]]<ref>{{citation|last=Carr|first=Raymond|year=2001|title=Spain: a history | publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-280236-1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DzfRAgr5TAAC&pg=PA203|page=203}}</ref> || [[Spain]] || {{nts|20000}}<ref>{{citation|last=Reader|first=John|year=2005|title=Cities|publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press|isbn=978-0-87113-898-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZjNUoFvcvI4C&pg=PA243|page=243}}</ref>
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| 1812 || Regional famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=204–205, 210}} || [[Östergötland County]], Sweden ||
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| 1815 || Eruption of [[Mount Tambora]]. Tens of thousands died in subsequent famine || [[Indonesia]] || {{nts|10000}}
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| 1816–1817 || [[Year Without a Summer]] || [[Europe]] and [[Yunnan]] || {{nts|65000}}+ in Europe
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| 1822 || Famine{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|pp=173, 183}} || Western [[Ireland]] ||
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| 1831 || Famine{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2017|pp=173}} || [[Ireland]] ||
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| 1830–1833 || Famine, claimed to have killed 42% of the population || [[Cape Verde]] || {{nts|30000}}{{sfn|Ó Gráda|2009|p=22}}
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| 1832–1833 || [[Guntur famine of 1832]] || [[Madras Presidency]], [[India]] || {{nts|150,000}}
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| 1832–1833 || Famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 197}} || [[Finland]] ||
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| 1833–1837 || [[Tenpō famine]] || [[Japan]] ||
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| 1837–1838 || [[Agra famine of 1837–1838]] || [[India]] || {{nts|800000}}
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| 1845–1857 || [[Highland Potato Famine]] || [[Scotland]] ||150,000 estimated
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| 1845–1852 || [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine]] killed more than 1,000,000 out of over 8.5 million people inhabiting Ireland. Between 1.5–2 million people were forced to emigrate<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/countries/ireland/great-famine|title=The Great Famine in Ireland, 1845–1849|publisher=Ego4u.com |date=2010-12-10|access-date=2014-08-13}}</ref> || [[Ireland]] || {{nts|600000}} to over {{nts|1500000}} that emigrated
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| 1846 || Famine led to the peasant revolt known as "[[Revolution of Maria da Fonte|Maria da Fonte]]" in the north of [[Portugal]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bonifácio |first=Maria de Fátima |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b6QvAQAAMAAJ&q=Bonif%C3%A1cio,+Maria+de+F%C3%A1tima,+Hist%C3%B3ria+da+Guerra+Civil+da+Patuleia+1846-1847,+Editorial+Estampa |title=História da guerra civil da patuleia, 1846-47 |date=1993 |publisher=Editorial Estampa |isbn=978-972-33-0927-0 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>|| [[Portugal]] ||
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|1846–1848
|The [[1846–1848 Newfoundland potato famine|Newfoundland Potato Famine]], related to the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Great Famine of Ireland]]
|[[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]], present-day [[Canada]]
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| 1849–1850 || [[Demak Regency|Demak]] and [[Grobogan]] in central Java, caused by four successive crop failures due to drought. || [[Indonesia]] || {{nts|83000}}<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Elson |first1=R.E. |year=1985 |title=The Famine in Demak and Grobogan in 1849–50: Its Causes and Circumstances |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022463410000068 |journal=Review of Indonesian and Malayan Affairs |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=39–85|doi=10.1017/S0022463410000068 |url-access=subscription }}</ref>
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| 1857–1858 || Famine{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2017|pp=194, 197}} || [[Finland]] ||
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|1860–1861
|Black Winter of 1860–1861<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kazemi |first=Ranin |date=2017-05-01 |title=The Black Winter of 1860–61 |url=https://read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/article/37/1/24/271/The-Black-Winter-of-1860-61War-Famine-and-the |journal=Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East |language=en |volume=37 |issue=1 |pages=24–48 |doi=10.1215/1089201x-3821285 |issn=1089-201X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
|[[Qajar Iran]]
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| 1860–1861 || [[Upper Doab famine of 1860–1861]] || [[India]] || {{nts|2000000}}
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| 1863–1867 || Famine in Cape Verde || [[Cape Verde]] || {{nts|30000}}<ref name="O'Grada, as above">O'Grada, as above.</ref>
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| 1866 || [[Orissa famine of 1866]] || [[India]] || {{nts|1000000}}<ref name="igi-III-486-7">{{Citation | last = Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. III | title = The Indian Empire, Economic (Chapter X: Famine, pp. 475–502) | publisher = Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. pp. 486–87, 1 map, 552. | year = 1907}}</ref>
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| 1866 || Keio famine (due to rain)<ref name=geochemj.2.0417/> || [[Japan]] ||
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| 1866–1868 || [[Finnish famine of 1866–1868]]. About 15% of the entire population died || [[Finland]] || {{nts|150000}}+
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| 1866–1868 || Famine in French Algeria<ref>{{Cite book |last=Slobodkin |first=Yan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z73LEAAAQBAJ&dq=famine+in+algeria&pg=PT1 |title=The Starving Empire: A History of Famine in France's Colonies |date=2023-11-15 |publisher=Cornell University Press |isbn=978-1-5017-7236-8 |language=en}}</ref>|| [[French Algeria]] || {{nts|820000}}
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| 1867–1869 || [[Swedish famine of 1867–1869]] || Northern [[Sweden]]{{sfn|Dribe|Olsson|Svensson|2015|pp=16, 20–21, 26}} ||
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| 1869 || [[Rajputana famine of 1869]] || [[India]] || {{nts|1500000}}<ref name="igi-III-486-7"/>
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|1869–1870
|Famines due to weather, with [[North Hamgyong Province]] particularly affected.<ref>{{Cite web |last=이 |first=이소 |date=June 29, 2019 |title=1869년, 기사년의 조선인 탈출 |url=http://www.ecumenian.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=19063 |access-date=2024-04-27 |website=www.ecumenian.com |language=ko}}</ref>
|[[Joseon]]
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| 1870–1872 || [[Persian famine of 1870–1872]], extended by some scholars from 1869 to 1873<ref>{{Cite book |last=Majd |first=Mohammad Gholi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gaY6DwAAQBAJ&q=famine+in+iran |title=A Victorian Holocaust: Iran in the Great Famine of 1869–1873 |date=2017-11-22 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-7618-7015-9 |language=en}}</ref>|| [[Qajar Iran]]|| {{nts|200000}}–{{nts|3000000}} Estimates vary<ref>{{citation|first=Ahmad|last=Seyf|title=Iran and the Great Famine, 1870–72|date=2010|doi=10.1080/00263201003616584|pages=289–306|volume=46|issue=2|journal=Middle East Studies|publisher=Taylor & Francis|s2cid=143872685}}</ref>
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| 1873–1874 || Famine in [[Anatolia]] caused by drought and floods<ref>{{citation|first=Erik Jan|last=Zürcher|author-link=Erik-Jan Zürcher|year=2004|title=Turkey: a modern history|edition=3|publisher=I. B.Tauris|isbn=978-1-85043-399-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qaC24BFy4JQC&pg=PA72|page=72 }}</ref><ref>{{citation|last=Mitchell|first=Stephen|year=1995|title=Anatolia: land, men, and Gods in Asia Minor|edition=reprint|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-815029-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pUYtwuve40kC&pg=PA145|page=145}}</ref> || [[Turkey]] (present day) ||
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| 1873–1874 || [[Bihar famine of 1873–1874]] || [[India]] ||
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| 1876–1878 || [[Great Famine of 1876–1878|Great Indian Famine of 1876–1878]] || [[India]] || {{nts|5500000}}
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| 1876–1879 || [[Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879]] || [[China]] || {{nts|9000000}}–{{nts|13000000}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Hasell |first1=Joe |last2=Roser |first2=Max |date=April 2024 |title=Famines |url=https://ourworldindata.org/famines#:~:text=This%20topic%20page%20focuses%20on%20the%20history |access-date=1 October 2024 |journal=Our World in Data}}</ref>
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| 1876–1878 || Brazilian drought of 1877–1878, also known as the [[Grande Seca]] || [[Brazil]] || {{nts|500000}}
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| 1878–1880 || [[St. Lawrence Island famine]], [[Alaska]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Crowell |first1=Aron L. |last2=Oozevaseuk |first2=Estelle |date=2006-02-06 |title=The St. Lawrence Island Famine and Epidemic, 1878–80: A Yupik Narrative in Cultural and Historical Context |url=https://aa.uwpress.org/content/43/1/1.abstract |journal=Arctic Anthropology |language=en |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=1–19 |doi=10.1353/arc.2011.0105 |pmid=21847843 |issn=0066-6939|url-access=subscription }}</ref>|| [[United States]] || {{nts|1000}}
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| 1879 || [[Irish Famine (1879)|1879 Famine in Ireland]]. Unlike previous famines, this famine mainly caused hunger and food shortages but little mortality. || [[Ireland]] ||
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|1879
|Famine in the Eastern areas of the Empire<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Ghazarian |first=Matthew |date=2022 |title=A Climate of Confessionalization: Famine and Difference in the Late Ottoman Empire |journal=International Journal of Middle East Studies |language=en |volume=54 |issue=3 |pages=484–504 |doi=10.1017/S0020743822000502 |issn=0020-7438|doi-access=free }}</ref>
|[[Ottoman Empire]]
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|1883–1885
|Famine caused by failure of rainy seasons and drought.<ref>{{Citation |last=Rockel |first=Stephen J. |title=A Forgotten Drought and Famine in East Africa, 1883–1885 |date=2022 |work=Droughts, Floods, and Global Climatic Anomalies in the Indian Ocean World |pages=289–343 |editor-last=Gooding |editor-first=Philip |url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-98198-3_10 |access-date=2024-09-26 |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-3-030-98198-3_10 |isbn=978-3-030-98198-3|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
|East Africa,[[Tanzania]] and [[Kenya]]
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| 1888–1889 || Famine in [[Odisha|Orrisa]], [[Ganjam]] and Northern [[Bihar]]|| [[India]] || {{nts|150000}}
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| 1888–1892 || [[Famines in Ethiopia|Ethiopian Great famine]]. About one-third of the population died.<ref>{{cite news|last=Serrill|first=Michael S.|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,966291-3,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211211756/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,966291-3,00.html|archive-date=February 11, 2009|title=Famine Hunger stalks Ethiopia once again – and aid groups fear the worst|publisher=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=1987-12-21|access-date=2014-08-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ccb.ucar.edu/ijas/ijasno2/georgis.html|title=El Niño and Drought Early Warning in Ethiopia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070911102037/http://www.ccb.ucar.edu/ijas/ijasno2/georgis.html|archive-date=2007-09-11}}</ref> Conditions worsen with [[cholera]] outbreaks (1889–92), a [[typhus]] epidemic, and a major [[smallpox]] epidemic (1889–90). || [[Ethiopia]] || {{nts|1000000}}
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| 1891–1892 ||[[Russian famine of 1891–1892]]. Beginning along the [[Volga|Volga River]] and spreading to the Urals and the Black Sea. || [[Russia]] || {{nts|375000}}–{{nts|500000}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.iupui.edu/~histwhs/h699.dir/HumanitChrono.htm|title=The History of International Humanitarian Assistance|publisher=Iupui.edu|access-date=2014-08-13|archive-date=2019-10-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011143739/http://www.iupui.edu/~histwhs/h699.dir/HumanitChrono.htm}}</ref><ref>[http://www.hrono.info/libris/lib_s/spir02cp.html Spiridovich, Alexander. ''Revolutionary movement in Russian''. Ed. 2.]; accessed June 22, 2018.{{in lang|ru}}</ref>
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| 1895–1898 || Famine during the [[Cuban War of Independence]] || [[Cuba]] || {{nts|200000}}–{{nts|300000}}
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| 1896–1902 || [[Indian famine of 1896–1897]] and [[Indian famine of 1899–1900]] due to drought and British policies.<ref name="books.google.com">{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ht4lAAAAMAAJ |title=Famines and Land Assessments in India by RC Dutt|last1=Dutt|first1=Romesh Chunder|year=1900}}</ref><ref>''Imperial Gazetteer of India'' vol. III (1907), The Indian Empire, Economic (Chapter X: Famine, pp. 475–502), Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. pp. xxx, 1 map, 552.</ref>{{sfn|Dyson|1991|p=15}} || [[India]] || {{nts|2000000}} (British territories), mortality unknown in princely states
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|1897–1901
|Famine in East Africa, caused by drought and locust swarms. Resulted in increased grain prices, starvation and smallpox epidemic. Known as ''Yua ya Ngomanisye,'' meaning the famine that went everywhere<ref>{{Cite book |last=Duminy |first=James |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-CuWEAAAQBAJ&dq=1899+kenya+famine&pg=PA30 |title=Food and Famine in Colonial Kenya |date=2022-10-19 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-031-10964-5 |pages=28–31 |language=en}}</ref>
|East Africa, [[Kenya]] and [[Uganda]]
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| 1900–1903 || Famine in Cape Verde || [[Cape Verde]] || {{nts|11000}}–{{nts|20000}}<ref name="O'Grada, as above"/>
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|1901
|Northern Chinese Famine in Spring 1901, caused by drought from 1898-1901. The famine was one of the causes of the anti-imperialist [[Boxer Rebellion|Boxer rebellion]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cohen |first=Paul A. |url=https://archive.org/details/historyinthreeke00cohe#:~:text=History%20in%20three%20keys%20:%20the%20boxers%20as |title=History in three keys : the boxers as event, experience, and myth |date=1997 |publisher=New York : Columbia University Press |others=Internet Archive |isbn=978-0-231-10650-4}}</ref>
|[[China]] (Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces) and Inner [[Mongolia]]
|200,000 in Shaanxi province.
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| 1904–1906 || Famine in Spain<ref>"The terrible drought and famine of 1905 brought the strikes to an end….After the famine of 1905 anarchism seemed to disappear in the south of Spain. Only a few groups remained in the towns." [[Gerald Brenan|Brenan, Gerald]]. (1990) ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Spanish_Labyrinth.html?id=p7vqPNB6locC&redir_esc=y#:~:text=Gerald%20Brenan's%20The%20Spanish%20Labyrinth The Spanish Labyrinth: An Account of the Social and Political Background of the Spanish Civil War]''. [[Cambridge University Press]]. pp. 175, 178. ISBN 9780521398275</ref><ref>Harrison, R. J. (1973) "[https://www.jstor.org/stable/3741595 The Spanish Famine of 1904–1906]". ''[[Agricultural History (journal)|Agricultural History]].'' Vol. 47, No. 4. Duke University Press. pp. 300–07. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3741595</ref><ref>{{cite book | last1=Harrison | first1=Joseph | last2=Hoyle | first2=Alan | title=Spain's 1898 crisis : regenerationism, modernism, post-colonialism | publisher=Manchester University Press | publication-place=Manchester | date=2000 | isbn=0-7190-5862-7 | oclc=44100623 | quote = A debilitating famine, caused by a persistent drought which lasted from the spring of 1904 until summer 1906, bringing death and starvation to the South, raised the expectations of agrarian reformers that the Madrid authorities would vote additional funds for that region.}}</ref> || [[Spain]] ||
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| 1906–1907 || [[Chinese famine of 1906–1907]] || [[China]] || {{nts|20,000,000}}–{{nts|25,000,000}}<ref>{{cite book|url=http://knowledge.sagepub.com/view/disasterrelief/n31.xml|title=Encyclopedia of Disaster Relief |year=2011 |publisher=SAGE Publications, Inc.|doi=10.4135/9781412994064 |access-date=2015-09-08|last1=Penuel |first1=K. |last2=Statler |first2=Matt |isbn=9781412971010 }}</ref>
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|1913–1914
|Famine, grain price rose "thirtyfold"<ref name=":5" />
|[[Ethiopia]]
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| 1914–1918 || [[Mount Lebanon Mutasarrifate|Mount Lebanon]] [[Great Famine of Mount Lebanon|famine]] during [[World War I]] which was caused by the [[Entente Powers|Entente]] and [[Ottoman Empire|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<ref>{{cite news|last1=Basckin|first1=Deborah|title=Six unexpected WW1 battlegrounds|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30098000|access-date=November 26, 2014|work=BBC News Magazine|publisher=BBC News|date=November 25, 2014}}</ref> || [[Lebanon]] || {{nts|200000}}
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| 1914–1919 || Famine caused by the Allied [[Blockade of Germany (1914–1919)|blockade of Germany]] during World War I until Germany signed the [[Treaty of Versailles]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=First World War {{!}} Spotlights on history |url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/spotlights/blockade.htm#:~:text=Official%20statistics,Allied%20blockade. |access-date=2020-12-02 |website=The National Archives UK}}</ref>|| [[Germany]] || {{nts| 763000}}
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| 1917 || Famine in [[East African campaign (World War I)|German East Africa]] || [[German East Africa]] || {{nts|300000}}
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| 1917–1919 || [[Persian famine of 1917–1919]] || [[Iran]] || {{nts|2000000}},<ref>
*{{cite book|last1=Abrahamian|first1=Ervand|title=The Coup: 1953, the CIA, and the roots of modern U.S.–Iranian relations|date=2013|publisher=New Press, The|location=New York|isbn=978-1-59558-826-5|pages=26–27}}
*{{cite book|last1=Katouzian|first1=Homa|year=2013|title=Iran: A Beginner's Guide|publisher=Oneworld Publications|isbn=9781780742731|page=1934}}
*{{cite book|last1=Rubin|first1=Barry|year=2015|title=The Middle East: A Guide to Politics, Economics, Society and Culture|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317455783|page=508}}</ref> but estimates range as high as {{nts|10000000}}<ref>{{cite book|last=Majd|first=Mohammad Gholi|year=2003|title=The Great Famine and Genocide in Persia, 1917–1919|publisher=University Press of America|isbn=978-0761826330}}</ref>
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| 1918–1919 || Rumanura famine in [[Ruanda-Urundi|Ruanda-Burundi]], causing large migrations to the Congo || [[Rwanda]] and [[Burundi]] (present day){{citation needed|date=June 2018}} ||
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| 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]] || <ref>[http://www.les-treilles.com/ssimages/c_2003_06_OGrada.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212011357/http://www.les-treilles.com/ssimages/c_2003_06_OGrada.html|date=February 12, 2009}}</ref>
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| 1920–1921 || Famine in northern China || [[China]] || {{nts|500000}}
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| 1920–1922 || Famine in Cape Verde || [[Cape Verde]] || {{nts|24000}}–{{nts|25000}}<ref name="O'Grada, as above"/>
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| 1921 || [[Russian famine of 1921–1922]] || [[Russia]] || {{nts|5000000}}<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/forcesofnature/natural-disasters.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013154601/http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/forcesofnature/natural-disasters.html|date=October 13, 2007}}</ref>
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| 1921–1922 || [[1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan]] || [[Russia]] || {{nts|500000}}–{{nts|2000000}}<ref>{{citation | last=Mizelle | first=Peter Christopher | title="Battle with famine" : Soviet relief and the Tatar Republic 1921-1922 | date = 2002 | publisher=University of Virginia | doi=10.18130/V37P8TC84 | url=https://libraetd.lib.virginia.edu/public_view/0k225b53m | access-date=2023-02-25}}</ref>
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| 1921–1923 || 1921–1923 famine in Soviet Russian Ukraine || [[Ukraine]] || {{nts|250000}}–{{nts|1000000}}<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Wasyl|first1=Veryha|title=Famine in Ukraine in 1921–1923 and the Soviet government's countermeasures|volume=12|issue=2|pages=265–285|date=1984|journal=Nationalities Papers|location=District of Columbia, USA|doi=10.1080/00905998408408001|s2cid=154189763 }}</ref>
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| 1924–1925 || Famine in [[Volga German]] colonies in Russia. One-third of the entire population perished<ref>[http://www.volgagermans.net/volgagermans/Volga%20Famine%20Years.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228235600/http://www.volgagermans.net/volgagermans/Volga%20Famine%20Years.htm|date=February 28, 2009}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=January 2020}} || [[Russia]] ||
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| 1924–1925 || [[Irish food shortages (1925)|Minor famine]] in Ireland due to heavy rain || [[Irish Free State]] {{citation needed|date=June 2018}} ||
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|1926
|Famine in Darfur<ref>{{Cite book |last=Daly |first=M. W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oL97QgAACAAJ |title=Darfur's Sorrow: A History of Destruction and Genocide |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2007 |isbn=9780521699624 |pages=139}}</ref>
|Darfur, [[Anglo-Egyptian Sudan]]
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| 1928–1929 || Famine in [[Ruanda-Urundi|Ruanda-Burundi]], causing large migrations to the Congo || [[Rwanda]] and [[Burundi]] (present day) ||
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| 1928–1930 || [[Chinese famine of 1928–1930]] in northern China. The [[drought]] resulted in millions of deaths || [[China]] || {{nts|3000000}}–{{nts|10000000}}
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| 1930–1934 || First {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}|| [[Madagascar]] || {{nts|500000}}
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| 1932–1933 || [[Soviet famine of 1932–1933]], including [[Holodomor|famine in Ukraine]], and [[Kazakh famine of 1930–1933|famine in Kazakhstan]], caused by Soviet collectivization policy, abnormal cold period,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Cameron |first=Sarah |title=The Hungry Steppe |publisher=Cornell University Press |year=2018 |isbn=9781501730436}}</ref> and bad harvests in the years of 1931–1932.<ref name=":0">{{cite book | last1=Davies | first1=R. W. | last2=Wheatcroft | first2=Stephen G. | title=The Industrialisation of Soviet Russia Volume 5: The Years of Hunger | publisher=Palgrave Macmillan | publication-place=Basingstoke | date=2010-01-20 | isbn=978-0-230-27397-9 | doi=10.1057/9780230273979 | page = 415 | oclc=649384703}}</ref> || [[Russian SFSR]], [[Ukrainian SSR]], and [[Kazakh Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic|Kazakh ASSR]] || {{nts|5,000,000}}<ref name=":0"/>–{{nts|7000000}}<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170313040724/http://repository.un.org/bitstream/handle/11176/246001/A_C.3_58_9-EN.pdf "Joint statement by the delegations of Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Benin, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada, Egypt, Georgia, Guatemala, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nauru, Pakistan, Qatar, the Republic of Moldova, the Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, the Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Timor-Leste, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates and the United States of America on the seventieth anniversary of the Great Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor) to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General"]</ref>
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| 1939–1952 || Famine in Spain caused primarily by the implementation of the autarkic economy || [[Spain]] || {{nts|200000}}<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Blanco |first=Miguel Ángel del Arco |date=2021-01-01 |title=Famine in Spain During Franco's Dictatorship, 1939–52 |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022009419876004 |journal=Journal of Contemporary History |language=en |volume=56 |issue=1 |pages=3–27 |doi=10.1177/0022009419876004 |issn=0022-0094|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Franco's Famine |url=https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/francos-famine-9781350174658/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20240808060403/https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/francos-famine-9781350174658/ |archive-date=2024-08-08 |access-date=2025-02-23 |website=Bloomsbury |language=en}}</ref>
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| 1940–1943 || Famine in Cape Verde || [[Cape Verde]] || {{nts|20000}}<ref name="O'Grada, as above"/>
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| 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).<ref>In the Warsaw Ghetto about 83,000 out of 470,000 inhabitants died between the end of 1940 and September 1942 (Raul Hilberg, ''The Destruction of the European Jews'', Revised and Definitive Edition, 1985 by Holmes & Meier Publishers, Inc. New York, page 269). On August 24, 1942, after having decided that of the 1.5 Jews still alive in the [[General Government]] all but 300,000 working for the Germans would no longer be fed at all, [[Hans Frank]] noted by the way that 1.2 million Jews had been sentenced to die of hunger and that should the Jews not starve to death he hoped for a speeding up of anti-Jewish measures (Christian Gerlach, ''Krieg, Ernährung, Völkermord'', Hamburger Edition, 1998, p. 220). The [[Belzec extermination camp]], the [[Sobibor extermination camp]] and the [[Treblinka extermination camp]] were at the height of their activity in the months August, September and October 1942. In these three months alone, according to German historian Sara Berger (''Experten der Vernichtung: Das T4-Reinhardt-Netzwerk in den Lagern Belzec, Sobibor und Treblinka'', Hamburger Edition 2013, Table 2 on p. 254), at least 897,500 Jews were killed in these three camps – 352,100 in August, 255,500 in September and 289,900 in October.</ref> || [[Occupied Poland]] ||
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| 1940–1948 || Famine in [[Morocco]] between 1940 and 1948, because of refueling system installed by France.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ww.telquel-online.com/archives/300/couverture_300.shtml|access-date=2015-09-13|title=Archived copy|archive-date=2016-04-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410000927/http://ww.telquel-online.com/archives/300/couverture_300.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> || [[Morocco]] || {{nts|200000}}
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| 1941–1944 || [[Siege of Leningrad|Leningrad]] famine caused by a 900-day blockade by German troops. About a 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&nbsp;°C (−40&nbsp;°F).<ref>[http://it.stlawu.edu/~rkreuzer/pcavallerano/leningradweb.htm] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301211845/http://it.stlawu.edu/~rkreuzer/pcavallerano/leningradweb.htm|date=March 1, 2013}}</ref> According to other estimates about 800,000 out of an immediate pre-siege population of about 2.5 million perished.<ref>This order of magnitude is mentioned in Harrison E. Salisbury, ''The 900 Days. The Siege of Leningrad.'' (Avon Books, New York, 1970), pp. 590ff.; Anna Reid, ''Leningrad. The Epic Siege of World War II, 1941-1944'' (2011 Bloomsbury, London), Appendix I (pp. 417–418); various sources cited in ''Blockade Leningrads 1941-1944. Dossiers'' (a publication of the Museum Berlin Karlshorst in German and Russian), pp. 110–113.</ref> || [[Soviet Union]] || {{nts|800,000}}–{{nts|1,000,000}}
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| 1941–1944 || [[Great Famine (Greece)|Famine]] in Greece caused by the [[Axis occupation of Greece|Axis occupation]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Hionidou | first=Violetta | title=Famine and death in occupied Greece, 1941-1944 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | publication-place=Cambridge, UK | date=2006 | isbn=978-0-521-82932-8 | oclc=62532868}}</ref><ref>Gildea, Robert et al. (2006) ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Surviving_Hitler_and_Mussolini.html?id=8lPh2vwFuU4C&redir_esc=y#:~:text=Surviving%20Hitler%20and%20Mussolini%20examines Surviving Hitler and Mussolini: daily life in occupied Europe.]'' Berg Publishers. ISBN 9781845201814.</ref>|| [[Greece]] || {{nts|300000}}
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| 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.<ref>Document USHMM, RG-31.010M, R.7, 2982/4/390a, transcribed in ''Verbrechen der Wehrmacht. Dimensionen des Vernichtungskriegs'', Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, p. 346.</ref> 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.<ref>Document PAAA, R60763, transcribed in ''Verbrechen der Wehrmacht'', p. 345.</ref> British historian Alex Kay estimates that at least 30,000 city inhabitants died in the famine.<ref name=":7">Kay, Alex J. (2001) ''[[Empire of Destruction]]. A History of Nazi Mass Killing.'' Yale University Press, PDF edition, p. 186</ref> According to Soviet sources about 70–80,000 people died of starvation in Kharkiv during the occupation by Nazi Germany.<ref>Werth, Alexander. (2000) ''Russia at War 1941-1945.'' Carroll & Graf Publishers New York. p. 607-608</ref>|| [[Soviet Union]] || {{nts|30,000}}–{{nts|80,000}}
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| 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.<ref>Berkhoff, Karel C. (2004) ''Harvest of Despair. Life and Death in Ukraine under Nazi Rule.'' The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London. p. 186</ref> British historian Alex Kay estimates that about 10,000 city inhabitants died of starvation.<ref name=":7" />|| [[Soviet Union]] || {{nts| 10,000}}
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| 1942–1943 || [[Chinese famine of 1942–1943]] || [[Henan, China]] || {{nts|700,000}}
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| 1942–1943 || [[Iranian famine of 1942–1943]] || [[Iran]] || 4,000,000<ref>{{Cite book |last=Majd |first=Mohammad Gholi |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LLypCwAAQBAJ |title=Iran Under Allied Occupation In World War II: The Bridge to Victory & A Land of Famine |date=2016-03-22 |publisher=UPA |isbn=978-0-7618-6739-5 |language=en}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=September 2024}}
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| 1943 || [[Bengal famine of 1943]] || [[Bengal]], [[British India]] || {{nts|2100000}}
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| 1943–1944 || [[Ruzagayura famine]] in [[Ruanda-Urundi]], causing emigrations to Congo || [[Rwanda]] and [[Burundi]] (present day) || {{nts|36000}}–{{nts|50000}}
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| 1943–1945 || Famine in [[Hadhramaut]] || [[Yemen]] (present day) || {{nts|10000}}<ref>Fletcher, Mary. [https://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/faminearabia.htm Famine in Arabia] ''The British Empire.''</ref><ref>Freitag, Ulrike (2003) ''[https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Indian_Ocean_Migrants_and_State_Formatio.html?id=cmsCFF2I14wC&redir_esc=y Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut: Reforming the Homeland].'' BRILL. p. 406. ISBN 9789004128507.</ref>
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|1943–1946
|Second {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|1,000,000
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| 1944–1945 || [[Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies#End of the occupation|Java under Japanese occupation]] || [[Java (island)|Java]], [[Indonesia]] || {{nts|2400000}}<ref>{{cite web |last=Van der Eng |first= Pierre |year=2008 |title=Food Supply in Java during War and Decolonisation, 1940–1950. ''(MPRA Paper No. 8852) pp. 35–38.'' |url=http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/8852/ |publisher=Mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de}}</ref>
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| 1944–1945 || [[Dutch famine of 1944–1945]] during [[World War II]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Zwarte |first=Ingrid de |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zozrDwAAQBAJ&q=famine+in+germany |title=The Hunger Winter |date=2020-07-23 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-83680-7 |language=en}}</ref>|| [[Netherlands]] || {{nts|20000}}
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| 1944–1945 || [[Vietnamese famine of 1944–1945]]|| [[Vietnam]] || {{nts|600,000}}–{{nts|2,000,000}}<ref>Gunn, Geoffrey. (2001) [https://apjjf.org/-Geoffrey-Gunn/3483/article.pdf The Great Vietnamese Famine of 1944-45 Revisited], ''The Asia-Pacific Journal,'' Volume 9(5). Number 4. Article ID 3483. Jan 24. The demographics vary from French estimates of 600,000-700,000 dead, to official Vietnamese numbers of 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 victims.</ref>
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| 1945–1947 || Famine in [[Königsberg]] ([[Kaliningrad]]) || [[Soviet Union]] || {{nts|57,000}}–{{nts|76,500}}<ref>According to German historian Andreas Kossert, there were about 100,000 to 126,000 German civilians in the city at the time of Soviet conquest in early April 1945, and of these only 24,000 survived to be deported in 1947/48. Hunger accounted for 75 % of the deaths, epidemics (especially typhoid fever) for 2.6 % and violence for 15 % (Andreas Kossert, ''Ostpreußen. Geschichte und Mythos'', 2007 Pantheon Verlag, PDF edition, p. 347). This would mean 76,000 - 102,000 deaths and 57,000 - 76,500 thereof (75 %) from hunger. Peter B. Clark (''The Death of East Prussia. War and Revenge in Germany's Easternmost Province'', Andover Press 2013, PDF edition, p. 326) refers to Professor Wilhelm Starlinger, the director of the city's two hospitals that cared for typhus patients, who estimated that out of a population of about 100,000 in April 1945, some 25,000 had survived by the time large-scale evacuations began in 1947. This estimate is also mentioned by [[Richard Bessel]], "Unnatural Deaths", in: ''The Illustrated Oxford History of World War II'', edited by Richard Overy, Oxford University Press 2015, pp. 321–343, (p. 336).</ref>
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| 1946–1947 || [[Food in occupied Germany|Hungerwinter]] || [[Germany]] || {{nts|100,000|prefix=>}}<ref>The number of excess deaths from hunger and cold has been estimated by historians at several hundred thousand, based on extrapolations from partial data ([https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/Hungerwinter-194647,hungerwinter166.html Der "weiße Tod" im Hungerwinter 1946/47], [[Norddeutscher Rundfunk]], 07.05.2020).</ref>{{better source needed|date=June 2025}}
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| 1946–1947 || [[Soviet famine of 1946–1947]] || [[Soviet Union]] || {{nts|1000000}}–{{nts|1500000}}<ref>Ellman, M. (2000) [https://web.archive.org/web/20060927152802/http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/24/5/603 The 1947 Soviet famine and the entitlement approach to famines], ''[[Cambridge Journal of Economics]],'' 24('''5'''), pp. 603-630</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Nicholas|last=Ganson|title=The Soviet Famine of 1946–47 in Global and Historical Perspective|url=http://us.macmillan.com/thesovietfamineof194647inglobalandhistoricalperspective|location=New York|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2009|isbn=978-0-230-61333-1|access-date=2009-05-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090906062920/http://us.macmillan.com/thesovietfamineof194647inglobalandhistoricalperspective|archive-date=2009-09-06}}</ref>
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| 1946–1948 || Famine in Cape Verde || [[Cape Verde]] || {{nts|30000}}<ref name="O'Grada, as above"/>
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| 1949 || [[Nyasaland famine of 1949]] || [[Malawi]] || {{nts|200}}
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| 1950 || [[1950 Caribou Inuit famine]] || [[Canada]] || {{nts|60}}
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|1955–1958
|Third {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
| 1958 || [[Famines in Ethiopia|Famine in Tigray]]<ref name=":5" />|| [[Ethiopia]] || {{nts|100000}}
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| 1959–1961 || The [[Great Chinese Famine]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hasell|first1=Joe|last2=Roser|first2=Max|date=2013-10-10|title=Famines|url=https://ourworldindata.org/famines|url-status=live|journal=Our World in Data|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418002509/https://ourworldindata.org/famines|archive-date=18 April 2020|access-date=22 April 2020}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last1=Meng |first1=Xin |last2=Qian |first2=Nancy |last3=Yared |first3=Pierre |date=2015 |title=The Institutional Causes of China's Great Famine, 1959–1961 |url=https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/pyared/papers/famines.pdf |url-status=live |journal=Review of Economic Studies |volume=82 |issue=4 |pages=1568–1611 |doi=10.1093/restud/rdv016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305165942/https://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/pyared/papers/famines.pdf |archive-date=5 March 2020 |access-date=22 April 2020}}</ref><ref name=":6">{{Cite news|last=Branigan|first=Tania|date=2013-01-01|title=China's Great Famine: the true story|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/01/china-great-famine-book-tombstone|url-status=live|access-date=2020-04-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110054200/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/01/china-great-famine-book-tombstone|archive-date=10 January 2016|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> Some researchers also include the year 1958 or 1962.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2012-05-08 |title=Documenting China's lost history of famine |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-17987733 |access-date=2024-09-26 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>|| [[China]] ([[Mainland China|mainland]]) || {{nts|15000000}}–{{nts|55000000}}<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":22">{{Cite journal|last=Wemheuer|first=Felix|date=2011|editor-last=Dikötter|editor-first=Frank|title=SITES OF HORROR: MAO'S GREAT FAMINE [with Response]|journal=The China Journal|issue=66|pages=155–164|doi=10.1086/tcj.66.41262812|jstor=41262812|s2cid=141874259|issn=1324-9347}}</ref><ref name="xiz">Peng Xizhe (彭希哲), "Demographic Consequences of the Great Leap Forward in China's Provinces," ''Population and Development Review'' 13, no. 4 (1987), 639–70.<br />For a summary of other estimates, please refer to this [http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat1.htm#Mao link]</ref>
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| 1966–1967 || Lombok, drought and malnutrition, exacerbated by restrictions on regional rice trade || [[Indonesia]] || {{nts|50000}}<ref>Van der Eng, Pierre (2012) [https://crawford.anu.edu.au/pdf/events/2012/20120916-Famine-in-Indonesia-1950s-60s.pdf "All Lies? Famines in Indonesia during the 1950s and 1960s?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223080341/https://crawford.anu.edu.au/pdf/events/2012/20120916-Famine-in-Indonesia-1950s-60s.pdf |date=2014-02-23 }}, Asian Historical Economics Conference, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo (Japan), September 13–15, 2012.</ref>
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|1966–1967
|Rice crisis<ref>{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s4NuAAAAMAAJ |title=Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity |year=1991 |isbn=9780862328689 |pages=225|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic }}</ref>
|[[Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma|Burma]]
|
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| 1967–1970 || Famine caused by [[Nigerian Civil War]] and blockade || [[Biafra]] || {{nts|2000000}}
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| 1968–1972 || [[Sahel drought]] created a famine that killed a million people<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081222065242/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,908581,00.html Famine Casts Its Grim Global Shadow]. May 13, 1974. TIME</ref>|| [[Mauritania]], [[Mali]], [[Chad]], [[Niger]] and [[Burkina Faso]] || {{nts|1000000}} {{citation needed|date=June 2018}}
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|1970–1972
|Fourth {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
|1971–1973
|Afghanistan drought
|[[Kingdom of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]]
|
|-
| 1972–1973 || [[Famines in Ethiopia|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]] || {{nts|60000}}<ref name="O Grada24"/>
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|1973
|Darfur drought
|[[Darfur|Darfur, Sudan]]
|{{nts|1000}}
|-
| 1974 || [[Bangladesh famine of 1974]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-27 |title=Famine - Entitlement, Causes, Effects {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/science/famine/Entitlement-failure#ref1263955 |access-date=2024-10-01 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>|| [[Bangladesh]] || {{nts|27000}}–{{nts|1500000}} {{citation needed|date=June 2018}}
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| 1975–1979 || [[Khmer Rouge]]. A maximum estimate of 500,000 [[Cambodia]]ns lost their lives to famine || [[Cambodia]] || {{nts|500000}}<ref name="Heuveline, Patrick 2001">{{cite book|last=Heuveline|first=Patrick|chapter=The Demographic Analysis of Mortality Crises: The Case of Cambodia, 1970–1979|title=Forced Migration and Mortality|publisher=[[National Academies Press]]|year=2001|pages=104–105|isbn=9780309073349|quote=Food supply remained deficient for most of 1979 and the famine could not be completely avoided. The most dramatic estimates of its toll are around 500,000 deaths (Ea, 1987; Banister and Johnson, 1993; Sliwinski, 1995) but those are again contested as much too high (Kiernan, 1986).}}</ref>
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| 1980–1981 || Caused by drought and conflict<ref name="O Grada24"/> || [[Uganda]] || {{nts|30000}}<ref name="O Grada24">{{harvnb|Ó Gráda|2009|p=24}}</ref>
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|1980–1982
|Fifth {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
|1982–1983
|Sixth {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
| 1982–1985 || Famine caused by the [[Mozambican Civil War]] || [[Mozambique]] || {{nts|100000}}
|-
| 1983–1985 || [[1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia]]<ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-10-23 |title=Lasting legacy of Ethiopia's famine |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8321043.stm |access-date=2024-09-26 |language=en-GB}}</ref>|| [[Ethiopia]] || {{nts|400000}}–{{nts|600000}}<ref>{{cite book | last=De Waal | first=Alexander | title=Evil days : thirty years of war and famine in Ethiopia. | publisher=Human Rights Watch | publication-place=New York | date=1991 | isbn=1-56432-038-3 | oclc=24504262}}</ref>
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| 1984–1985 || Famine caused by drought, economic crisis and the [[Second Sudanese Civil War]] || [[Sudan]] || {{nts|240000}}
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|1986–1987
|Seventh {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
| 1988 || Famine caused by the [[Second Sudanese Civil War]] || [[Sudan]] || {{nts|100000}}
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|1988–1989
|Eighth {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
| 1991–1992 || [[Operation Provide Relief|Famine in Somalia]] caused by drought and civil war<ref name="O Grada24"/> || [[Somalia]] || {{nts|300000}}<ref name="O Grada24"/>
|-
|1992–1994
|Ninth {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
| 1993 || [[1993 Sudan famine]] || [[Sudan]] ||20,000<ref>{{cite web |date=10 April 1993 |title=A 'Silent' Famine Spreads Death in Southern Sudan : Africa: Bitter civil war, homelessness and disease in the remote area bring misery rivaling that of Somalia. - Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-04-10-mn-21325-story.html |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref>
|-
| 1995–2000 || [[North Korean famine]].<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/august97/korea_8-26.html| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/19991112174457/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/forum/august97/korea_8-26.html| archive-date = 1999-11-12| title = Online NewsHour Forum: The North Korea Famine -- August 26, 1997| website = [[PBS]]}}</ref><ref>[http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr990802.html] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601191405/http://www.usip.org/pubs/specialreports/sr990802.html|date=June 1, 2009}}</ref> Scholars estimate 600,000 died of starvation (other estimates range from 200,000 to 3.5 million).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n24/cumi01_.html|title=Bruce Cumings: We look at it and see ourselves|publisher=Lrb.co.uk|access-date=2014-08-13}}</ref> || [[North Korea]] || {{nts|200000}}–{{nts|3500000}}
|-
|1995–1996
|Tenth {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
|1997–1998
|Eleventh {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
| 1998 || [[1998 Sudan famine]] caused by [[Second Sudanese Civil War|war]] and [[drought]] || [[Sudan]] || {{nts|70000}}<ref name="O Grada24"/>
|-
|1998
|1998 Afghanistan famine
|[[Emirate of Afghanistan|Afghanistan]]
|
|- id="21st"
| 1998–2000 || [[Famines in Ethiopia|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]] || {{nts|2700000}}
|-
| 2003–2005 || Famine during the [[War in Darfur]] || [[Sudan]] || {{nts|200000}}
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|2004–2005
|Twelfth {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
| 2005–2006 || [[2005–2006 Niger food crisis]]. At least three million were affected in Niger and 10 million throughout West Africa<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-07-26 |title=Niger: An evidence base for understanding the current crisis - Niger {{!}} ReliefWeb |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/niger/niger-evidence-base-understanding-current-crisis |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=reliefweb.int |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=23 May 2006 |title=Amnesty International Report 2006 - Niger |url=https://www.refworld.org/reference/annualreport/amnesty/2006/en/34044 |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=Refworld |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=January 16, 2006 |title=UN Seeks $240 Mln of Food Aid for West Africa |url=https://archive.globalpolicy.org/socecon/hunger/relief/2006/0116sahelcrisis.htm |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=archive.globalpolicy.org}}</ref>|| [[Niger]] and [[West Africa]] ||
|-
|2009–2013
|Thirteenth {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
| 2011–2012 || Famine in Somalia, brought on by the [[2011 East Africa drought]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=39225&Cr=Somalia&Cr1=#.UMHtF5Pm6uE|title=United Nations News Centre – UN declares famine in another three areas of Somalia|publisher=Un.org|date=2011-08-03|access-date=2014-08-13}}</ref> || [[Somalia]] || {{nts|285000}}
|-
| 2012 || Famine in West Africa, brought on by the [[2012 Sahel drought]]<ref name="Usfc">{{cite web|title=Sahel Famine Crisis|url=http://www.unicef.org.au/Donate/One-off-Donation/Sahel-Emergency-Appeal.aspx|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=August 29, 2013|archive-date=October 5, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121005084624/http://www.unicef.org.au/Donate/One-off-Donation/Sahel-Emergency-Appeal.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref> || [[Senegal]], [[Gambia]], [[Niger]], [[Mauritania]], [[Mali]], [[Burkina Faso]] ||
|-
|2014–2017
|Fourteenth {{Lang|mg|[[Kere (famine)|Kere]]}}
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
| 2016–present || [[Famine in Yemen (2016–present)|Famine in Yemen]], arising from the [[Yemeni civil war (2014–present)|Yemeni Civil War]] and the subsequent [[blockade of Yemen]] by Saudi Arabia || [[Yemen]] || {{nts|85000}} children as of 2017.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/world/middleeast/yemen-famine-children.html|title=85,000 Children in Yemen May Have Died of Starvation|first=Palko|last=Karasz|newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 21, 2018}}</ref> Unknown number of adults.
|-
| 2017 || [[2017 South Sudan famine|Famine in South Sudan]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/feb/20/famine-declared-in-south-sudan|title=Famine declared in South Sudan|work=The Guardian|date=2017-02-20}}</ref> Famine in Somalia, due to [[2017 Somali drought]]. Famine in Nigeria || [[South Sudan]], [[Unity State]], [[Somalia]], and [[Nigeria]]. ||
|-
|2020–present
|[[Famine in northern Ethiopia (2020–present)|Famine in the Tigray War]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Reisen |first=Mirjam Van |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K-0xEQAAQBAJ&dq=famine&pg=PA255 |title=Tigray: The Hysteresis of War |date=2024-11-17 |publisher=African Books Collective |isbn=978-9956-554-19-5 |language=en}}</ref>
|[[Tigray Region|Tigray]], [[Ethiopia]]
|150,000–200,000+<ref>{{Cite news |date=2022-03-14 |title=Tigray war has seen up to half a million dead from violence and starvation, say researchers |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-tigray-war-has-seen-up-to-half-a-million-dead-from-violence-and/ |access-date=2024-09-05 |work=The Globe and Mail |language=en-CA}}</ref>
|-
|2021–present
|[[2021–present Madagascar famine]]
|[[Madagascar]]
|
|-
|2021–present
|[[Aftermath of the Afghanistan War (2001–2021)|Aftermath of the War in Afghanistan]]
|[[Afghanistan]]
|
|-
|2023–present
|[[2024 Sudan famine]]
|[[Sudan]]
|1050+<ref>{{Cite web |last=SudanTribune |date=2024-10-17 |title=Famine tightens grip on Sudan's Nuba Mountains, hundreds dead |url=https://sudantribune.com/article292196/ |access-date=2024-10-21 |website=Sudan Tribune |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|2024–present
|[[2024 famine in Haiti]]
|[[Haiti]]
|
|}

==Table==
[[File:Global famines history.jpg|800px|Global famines history]]

== See also ==

=== Main article lists ===
{{Div col|colwidth=30em}}
* [[Bengal famine (disambiguation)|Bengal famine]]
* [[Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union]]
* [[Famine in India]]
* [[Famines in the Czech lands]]
* [[Famines in Ethiopia]]
* [[Great Bengal famine of 1770]]
* [[Great Famine of 1876–1878]]
* [[Great Chinese Famine]]
* [[Holodomor]]
* [[List of famines in China]]
* [[North Korean famine]]
* [[Timeline of major famines in India during British rule]]
{{div col end}}

=== Other articles ===
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* [[2007–2008 world food price crisis]]
* [[2010–2012 world food price crisis]]
* [[2022–2023 food crises]]
* [[Disaster]]
* [[Famine Early Warning Systems Network]]
* [[Famine events]]
* [[Famine relief]]
* [[Famine scales]]
* [[Food security]]
* [[Food security during the COVID-19 pandemic]]
* [[List of natural disasters by death toll]]
* [[Live Aid]]
* [[Medieval demography]]
* [[Population decline]]
* [[Potato famine (disambiguation)|Potato famine]]
* [[Starvation]]
* [[Theories of famines]]
* [[World population]]
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== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book |last1=Alfani |first1=Guido |last2=Ó Gráda |first2=Cormac |year=2017 |title=Famine in European History | publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |isbn= 978-1-316-84123-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SivNAQAACAAJ}}
** {{cite book |last1=Alfani |first1=Guido |last2=Ó Gráda |first2=Cormac |date=2017a |title=Famine in European History |chapter=1 - Famines in Europe: An Overview |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/1F2C289429D917478CA3124B1604127E |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=1–24 |isbn=9781107179936 |access-date=2025-03-23}}
** {{cite book |last=Moreda |first=Vicente Pérez |date=2017 |title=Famine in European History |chapter=3 - Spain |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/6751AC63A355EA582A9AB50113FF7586 |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=48–72 |isbn=9781107179936 |access-date=2025-03-16}}
** {{cite book |last1=Collet |first1=Dominik |last2=Krämer |first2=Daniel |date=2017 |title=Famine in European History |chapter=5 - Germany, Switzerland and Austria |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/110D3AEE6E978DFE51BA66BE43116A22 |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=101–118 |isbn=9781107179936 |access-date=2025-04-05}}
** {{cite book |last1=Hoyle |first1=Richard |date=2017 |title=Famine in European History |chapter=7 - Britain |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/A0AEB1C3C1A3E45666C5EDC5358515AD |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=141–165 |isbn=9781107179936 |access-date=2025-04-26}}
** {{cite book |last1=Ó Gráda |first1=Cormac |date=2017 |title=Famine in European History |chapter=8 - Ireland |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/47FFD861A5D08BEB50F05F4F03296494 |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=166–184 |isbn=9781107179936 |access-date=2025-04-12}}
** {{cite book |last1=Dribe |first1=Martin |last2=Olsson |first2=Mats |last3=Svensson |first3=Patrick |date=2017 |title=Famine in European History |chapter=9 - Nordic Europe |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/4356342D8E8A59AA2721829FF6F0B4F5 |url= |location=Cambridge |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=185–211 |isbn=9781107179936 |access-date=2025-04-13}}
*** For an open-access near-equivalent of this chapter, see {{cite journal |last1=Dribe |first1=Martin |last2=Olsson |first2=Mats |last3=Svensson |first3=Patrick |date=2015 |title=Famines in the Nordic countries, AD 536 - 1875 |url=https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/8001054 |journal=Lund Papers in Economic History. General Issues |volume= |issue=138 |publisher=Department of Economic History, Lund University |pages= |doi= |access-date=2025-04-20}}
* {{cite journal |last1=Alfani |first1=Guido |last2=Mocarelli |first2=Luca |last3=Strangio |first3=Donatella |title=Italian Famines: An overview (ca. 1250-1810) |publisher="Carlo F. Dondena" Centre for Research on Social Dynamics (DONDENA), Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi |year=2015 |url=https://ideas.repec.org/p/don/donwpa/084.html |journal=Working Papers |issue=84}} Accessed at https://dondena.unibocconi.eu/sites/default/files/media/attach/Dondena_WP084.pdf on 2025-03-15.
* {{cite journal | last = Dyson | first = Tim | year = 1991 | title = On the Demography of South Asian Famines: Part I | journal=Population Studies | volume = 45 | issue = 1 | pages = 5–25 | jstor = 2174991 | doi=10.1080/0032472031000145056 | pmid = 11622922 }}
* {{Cite book |last=Farris |first=William Wayne |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xEh2ohiJWVgC&q=famine+japan |title=Japan's Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, And Warfare in a Transformative Age |date=2006-01-01 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-2973-5 |language=en}}
* {{cite book |last=Ó Gráda |first=Cormac |year=2009 |title=Famine: a short history |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |isbn=978-0-691-12237-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LoN2XkjJio4C}}

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