A list of Famines

A list of some of the famines of World history
Irish Famine, 1840s It kills 0.5-1.2-3.3million,
Finish Famines 1867 100,000 people, 10% of the population,
Irish famine 1817
1830s Finland 1000s,
java 1840s 300,000
Russia 2/142,000 1850s, Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Russia 10/220,000, 1860s, excluding Finnish area, & Central Asia,
Russia 400/725,000, in 91-2, especially in SE-European areas,
Russia 0.7/83million 72-99 rest, like in Samara, later called Kyibushev,
Sicily 1840s
Brazil 30000die in Certao in 1825, 5 not as well mentioned as this all C, to 1860
Brazil 1876 0.56-a million Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Egypt 1890s 10/20,000
Brazil 1888
Brazil 1/1.5million die 1890s
1890s Borneo, The Irish Famine - The Great Famine
1890s Angola, 1890s 10/97,000die Philippines,
150000die in the Anatolia famine of 1874-5,
India 4-6million die 1900-4,
Iceland 1753, & 84,
Ryukyu 6000die famine, of the 1820s-60s,
Irish famines 1739 Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Korea 1869 1872
1881 Polar Inuit
Mexico 1780s
1883 Indonesia 80,000 caused by Krakatau
Poland 1000s 1867
China 1640s Millions
Central Europe Switzerland, South Germany North Italy 200,000 Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Ukraine, 1090s, 1190s, 1219, 1698, 1709,
China 1810/12
Russia 1846-53
Austrian Galicia 1846-53 200,000
Switzerland 1840s 1/17,000
Belgium 1840s Flanders had 40000, with Wallonia maybe 1000s,
Faroes 102 in a measles epidemic caused by the famine,
Austria 1/3,400, & Luxembourg, at least 10s, Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Scottish Highlands 1830s 1000s
Scottish Highlands 1840s 1000s

Ukraine famine 1930s Which saw 3/7.5million die, Across USSR 1930s 5- 10 Million 1.5 Million Kazakhs, 7 Millio across the USSR in the 1930s not unlikely. Ukranian famine element of `1932 sometimes called the Holodomor

Also over 10 Million in World War Two as of the war possibly 20 Million of harmed diet, plus over 100s of 1000s in WW1 as of that war in Europe, plus many thousands in Africa and Central Asia,
France 1846-48 caused the overthow of the Royals in 1848
Denmark 1840s 46000 I say
Netherlands 1840s 60/128,000Dutch
China 1800-50 45 million
China 14million in 1846/9,
China 1870s 10/22.8million die,
China 1890s 10million
Sweden/Finland 10,000 early 1800s, Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Sweden 1772-3, 20000
Sweden 1720s,
Sweden 1649
Georgia 1800/10s 40000
Java 1620s, 1/3 population die of famine
Sweden 1690s 100000, famine victims
Egypt 1792 Million famine deaths,
Sweden 1808-11, 57000,
France 1774, 74, 75, 84, 89, 1.22-2.321million dead,
Jamaica 1780s 20,000
Ontario 1780s, minor, (not to the people involved), Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Norway 1690s
Denmark 1704, 10000
Brittany 1779, 45000die
Vilnius late 17thC or early 18thC 20000
France 1709-10 1million was the statistic for famine death
Virgin Isles 1733 1/3 population
Belize 1627 10,000
France 1692-4 1.5-2million
China 1740s
Okinawa 1703
Scottish famine 1690s 50,000 - 150,000 people 10% of the population
Russian Famine 1894
England 1555 20000
Ireland Munster 1582 30000
Miao 1720s in wartime
China 1453
China 1770 3million
Ethiopia 1750s,
Ethiopia 1820s
North West England 1620s
Ireland 1640s
Scotland 1640s,
France 1652
Burgundy 1662 Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
France 1680s
Ireland 1708 1723
Ireland 1739-41 1/3 population
India 1630-2 3million
India 1688 India 1770 Bengal 1769 10-15million
India 1594-8
Sind/Hariana 1782-83
India Skull Famine 1792-3 several millions
NW India, 800,000 1837
Nellore in 1811
Guntoor 0.2-0.5million 1833
Saxony 1770 150,000
Bohemia 168/250,000, 1770
Germany 1740s
Gernany 1770
Denmark, 1770s, 17/25,000 Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Sicily 1763, 30000 die,
Italy 1763 80/319,000 very probabaly more
Spain 1763
Bengal 1669 3million
Deccan 1702-4 2million
Arabia 1722
Russian famines 1900s, 1000s
Egypt 1199BC, 100000deaths, Egypt 1064BC, 25000die,
China 153, huge
China 317 huge
Roman Empire 275ad, Millions Ukranian famine 1930s,
France 1770 1.2million,
Wales 989, 994, 836, Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
England 1005,
England 1069 100,000 deaths
Japan 1181 100,000 deaths
India 1345
China 1344
Scotland 1290s
Portugal 1569 100,000
W-Africa 1740s/50s/90s,
Morocoo 1442
France 1526
Mexico 1570s
Russia famine 1600s 500,000
London 1235 20,000
Austria-Hungary 1770 1 million
Volga famine 1930s
Kazakh famine 1930s,
Volga Famine 1920s
Ethiopian Famine 1970s,
Ethiopian Famine 1980s, 1million
European famine 1317 8.5million
North Korean Famine 1990s
Poland 1476 Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Venice 1520 20,000
Faeroese 1790s-1800s 1000s
Algeria 1860s
Orissa 1.5million 1867,
India 3.7-5.25million, 1860-73, 4.475million, over low 1000s, 1850s, over 1000s, 74-75
1876-9, India 6.1-10.3million die, Bengal saw 4million of this,
So probably 8.2million,
1876-79 10/100,000 Sri Lanka, Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/

To see more famines go to, http://www.lonympics.co.uk/famines2.htm

Here are some more sites, there are books and articles on the subjects in many internet places, or internet book shops, bookstores, at the bottom, are lists of which were the worst regimes of the past few centuries.

An Index with links to almost all our sites.

A site on the El Nino Famines that killed 10s of millions of Indians, and Chinese and others in the 19th Century

The Highland Clearances and it's full terribleness

A site on the Belgian Congo, and how the king of that land killed 10s of millions of Congolese

Why the French Revolution was good

A small history of famines in British India

The most evil regimes of the 19th Century

A site on 1640s Britain

Worst 18th Century regimes

What were the nicest regimes ever

The Best regimes ever in terms of achievers

Worst 17th Century regimes ever