Another list of Famines

Continued from http://www.lonympics.co.uk/famines.htm

Xhosa 1810s
Iraq 1831 10s of 1000s, Xhosa 1850s 50000
WW2 Bengal 1.4-4million
Henan ww2 3-5million 1942 Bulgaria
Greece, 200/450,000die 41-3 famine,
Vietnam 1944-45 200/500,000
1945 Angola, Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/ Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Spain 127/232,000 late 40s famine,
Haiti 1977 700
China 67 1-1.5million
E-Timor late 1970s,
Cambodia, let 70s, early 80s million Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Bangladesh 1.4 million 1974
1965-67 India, 1-1.5 million, in last years where aristos still had some power, this ended by mid 70s, so now no large scale famines,
Ethiopia late 50s over 175,000
Ethiopia 1969-74 0.4million-1.5million
Ethiopia 1984-85 0.8-1-2million
Ethiopia 1999 10/100,000,
Malawi 2000-02 1/10,000
60000die Romania 47
N-Yemen 1948
Afghanistan 1929
Afghanistan 1970 100,000
Swaziland 1948 500
Mali 1973 100,000, Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Niger 2005
Kenya 2006
Madagascar 1947 10/70,000
Angola 1961 1000s
1948 Malawi,
1946-7, Ukraine 0.5million die,
43, Rwanda-Burundi 325000die,
Morocco 3million 1878-1884
Ethiopia 1888-92 3million Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Japan 1900s
Austria post-WW1
Niger 1910s 85000die,
Iran WW1 0.4-1.5million, 1/4 of the N
Iran 19thC many huge famines
Haiti 1900s 1970s
Burkino Faso 1930s 1000s,Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Niger 1931 26,000
Sahel and Nigeria, 1930s 100,000Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Belgian Congo 40000, 1930s
N- China 0.5million 1920-21
China 1928-29 3million
USSR 1920-21 in this Russian Civil war era, other parts of the USSR but a very much also Russian famine the Volga was especially hit 1million-6million,
USSR mid 1920s 0.1-0.3million post-Civil war when hard times made the harshness hurt
Germany WW1 0.7million
Belgium-Rwanda, 1916-18,Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
East Africa 1918-20 1923
Angola 1918-20
French Equatoria 1918-20,
WW1 Famine saw 322000die in Syria/Palestine/Jordan/33% of the Lebanese died,
Bessarabia 1930sLook at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Finland 1917, not as many as the civil war
Romania 1920s-30s, some harmed by droughts
China 24-27million dead 1907 famine, as a river dries, redirects,
Uganda 80,000 colonial era of Brit occupation
Walata 10/52,000die in the 1889 famine, a part of S-Nigeria Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
1897-9, Great E-Africa bad rain famines, kill2/3 of some tribes, many Kikuyu, 0.6million,
Tanzania 1900s famine, under German war
Tanzania, 1890s, Rinerpest famine
Burundi Half of it's W plains people died, 1905-15 Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Rwanda-Burundi 1923, 1928,
Zimbabwe 10-100,000 1890s
Traansval 1896
Botswana 1890s 10% of the people 10,000
Mozambique 1890s
Cape Verde
Cape Verde 40% of the population do die in the 1770s,
Cape Verde 100000 in the 18th-19thC,
Cape Verde 1860s & 30s 30000,
Cape Verde Also in the 1900s 20000,
Cape Verde In the 1920s, 22000,
Cape Verde lets say low 1000s, in the 1930s,
Cape Verde 30/44,000die 1946-49,
Maldives 1940s, 100s
Maldives 1819
Maldives 1953 100s,
Southern Africa 2003, across most lands there, 5/50,000
North Korea 1995-00 famine, 0.3-1-2.9milion die,
1917 South Africa huge flu, not a famine,
Iraq dearths in the early mid 1950s,
Arabia 19thC famines,
Nepal 1990s famines killed 100s,Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/
Canada 1780s lack of food,
Europe 1840s, Look at http://www.lonympics.co.uk/

To see these famines in perspective only this POEM, will tell, but it is too long to read,

http://www.lonympics.co.uk/worldhistory/PARTS1.htm

More famines, in another list

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

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.

Our index site http://www.lonympics.co.uk.

A small history of famines in British India

An Index with links to almost all our sites.

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 Story of the Kenyan Mau Mau revolt against British rule

The Story of the Maji Maji Revolt in Tanzania against German rule, and details about other colonial depravations in that era, and the 1890s rinderpest epidemic

The most evil regimes of the 19th Century

A site on 1640s Britain

Worst 18th Century regimes