List of famines

This is an incomplete list of major famines, ordered by date.

A complete list will almost certainly never become available.

14th century

• 1315-1317 Great Famine in Europe
• 1333-1337 famine in China

16th century

• 1590s famines in Europe

17th century

• 1618-1648 famines in Europe caused by Thirty Years' War
• 1630-1631 famine in India

18th century

• 1740-1741 famine in Ireland
• 1770 famine in Bengal
• 1783 famine in Iceland

19th century

• 1816-1817 Famine in Europe (Year Without a Summer)
• 1830s Tenpo famine (Japan)
• 1845-1849 Irish Potato Famine
• 1846-1857 Highland Potato Famine (Scotland)
• 1866 famine in India (Bengal and Orissa)
• 1866-1868 famine in Finland
• 1879 famine in Ireland
• 1876-1879 famine in India, China, Brazil, Northern Africa (and other countries)
• 1889 famine in Ethiopia
• 1896-1897 famine in northern China
• 1896-1902 famine in India

20th century

• Mount Lebanon famine of World War I
• 1921 famine in Russia
• 1928-1929 famine in northern China
• 1933 Holodomor (Ukraine)
• 1943 famine in Bengal
• 1944 famine in the Netherlands during World War II
• 1945 famine in Vietnam
• 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward / Three Years of Natural Disasters (China)
• 1968-1972 Sahel drought
• 1974 famine in Bangladesh
• 1984 - 1985 famine in Ethiopia
• 1997 North Korean famine [1]
• famine in Sudan caused by war and drought
• famine in Zimbabwe

21st century

Droughts which have not yet become famines

• 2003- famine in Sudan/Darfur (Darfur conflict)
• 2005 Malawi food crisis
• 2005-06 Niger food crisis
• 2006 Horn of Africa food crisis

References

• Famine in China