# List of famines
## List

| Date | Event | Location | Death toll (where known; estimated) |
| c. 2,700 BC | Seven year famine, recorded on the Famine Stela | Egypt | |
| 2200 BC–2100 BC | The 4.2-kiloyear event caused famines and civilizational collapse worldwide | Global | |
| 441 BC | The first famine recorded in ancient Rome. | Ancient Rome | |
| 114 BC | Famine caused by drought during the third year in the Yuanding period. Starvation in over 40 commanderies east of the Hangu mountain pass. | China | |
| 103 BC–89 BC | Beminitiya Seya during the reign of the Five Dravidians | Anuradhapura Kingdom | |
| 26 BC | Famine recorded throughout Near East and Levant, as recorded by Josephus | Judea | 20,000+ |
| 333 AD | Famine in Antioch | Seleucid Empire | |
| 368–369 | Famine | Kingdom of Cappadocia | |
| 370 | Famine in Phrygia | Phrygia | |
| 372–373 | Famine in Edessa | Edessa | |
| 383 | Famine in the Rome. A policy had been introduced in 364 AD that stipulated taxes in Rome had to be paid in grain | Italy | |
| 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. | Western Europe | |
| 470 | Famine | Gaul | |
| 535–536 | Volcanic winter of 536 | Global | |
| 544 | Famine in Myra | Roman Empire | |
| 585 | Famine | Gaul | |
| 618–619 | Famine in Constantinople | Byzantine Empire | |
| 639 | Famine in Arabia during the reign of Umar | Arabia | |
| 676–78 | Famine in Thessalonica | Byzantine Empire |
| 698–700 | Famine | Ireland | |
| 750s | Famine | Islamic Spain (Al-Andalus) | |
| 779 | Famine | Francia | |
| 792–793 | Famine | Francia | |
| 800–1000 | Severe drought killed millions of Maya people due to famine and thirst and initiated a cascade of internal collapses that destroyed their civilization. | Mayan areas of Mesoamerica | 1,000,000+ |
| 805–806 | Famine | Francia | |
| 875–884 | Peasant rebellion in China inspired by famine; Huang Chao captured capital | China | |
| 927–928 | Famine caused by four months of frost | Byzantine Empire | |
| 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. | China | |
| 963–968 | Famine | Egypt | |
| 996–997 | Famine in the Fatimid Caliphate, with food price increases | Egypt | |
| 1004–1007 | Famine, resulting in food scarcity, price increases and widespread illnesses. 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 | Maghreb area in Northwest Africa: Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia and Egypt | |
| 1005–1006 | Famine | Europe | |
| 1010 | Famine in Nīshābūr | Iran | |
| 1016 | Famine throughout Europe | Europe | |
| 1025 | Famine | Egypt | |
| 1031 | Famine caused by a sandstorm that destroyed crops, trees and provisions | Iraq, Saudi Arabia | |
| 1051 | Famine forced the Toltecs to migrate from a stricken region in what is now central Mexico | Mexico (present day) | |
| 1055–1056 | Famine | Egypt | |
| 1064–1072 | Mustansirite Hardship | Egypt | 40,000 |
| 1069–1070 | Harrying of the North | England | 100,000 |
| 1097 | Famine and plague | France | 100,000 |
| 1124–1126 | Famine | Europe | |
| 1143–1147 | Famine | Europe | |
| 1150–1151 | Famine | Europe | |
| 1150–1151 | Widespread famine due to wet/cold | Japan | |
| 1153 | Local famine of unknown cause | Japan | |
| 1155 | Widespread famine of unknown cause | Japan | |
| 1161 | Widespread famine of unknown cause | Japan | |
| 1161–1162 | Famine | Aquitaine | |
| 1174–1175 | Local famine due to wet/cold | Japan | |
| 1180–1182 | Yōwa famine | Japan | 42,300 in Kyoto |
| 1183 | Local famine of unknown cause | Japan | |
| 1185 | Widespread famine due to drought | Japan | |
| 1196–1197 | Famine | Europe | |
| 1199–1202 | Famine due to the low water level of the Nile impacting food prices | Egypt | 100,000 |
| 1201 | Local famine due to wet/cold | Japan | |
| 1206 | Widespread famine of unknown cause | Japan | |
| 1224–1226 | Famine | Europe | |
| 1230 | Famine in the Novgorod Republic | Russia | |
| 1229–1232 | The Kanki famine, possibly the worst famine in Japan's history. Caused by volcanic eruptions. | Japan | 2,000,000 |
| 1233 | Local famine due to wet/cold | Japan | |
| 1235 | Famine in England | England | 20,000 in London |
| 1252 | Famine | Ethiopia | |
| 1252 | Widespread famine due to wet/cold | Japan | |
| 1255–1262 | Famine in Spain and Portugal | Iberian Peninsula | |
| 1256 | Famine in Tuscany | Tuscany | |
| 1256–1258 | Famine | Low Countries | |
| 1256–1258 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1257–1260 | Shōga famine, aggravated by the 1257 Samalas eruption | Japan | |
| 1258–1259 | Famine in England, Italy, France, the Holy Roman Empire and the Iberian Peninsula, aggravated by the 1257 Samalas eruption | Western Europe | |
| 1263 | Famine | Ireland | |
| 1264 | Famine | Egypt | |
| 1270–1271 | Famine | Ireland | |
| 1271 | Widespread famine due to drought | Japan | |
| 1271–1272 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1273–1274 | Widespread famine due to drought | Japan | |
| 1275–1277 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1275–1299 | Collapse of the Anasazi civilization, widespread famine occurred | United States | |
| 1279 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1281–1282 | Famine | Central Europe | |
| 1282 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1285–1286 | Famine. (Perhaps 1286 only.) | Italy | |
| 1291 | Famine | Nordic countries | |
| 1294–1296 | Famine caused by sandstorm that covered plantations and destroyed crops. | Egypt, Syria, Yemen | |
| 1294–1296 | Famine | British Isles | |
| 1301–1302 | Famine | Spain | |
| 1302–1303 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1304 | Famine | France | |
| 1305 | Famine | France | |
| 1308–1310 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1310 | Famine | France | |
| 1311 | Famine | Spain | |
| 1311–1312 | Famine | Lombardy, Italy | |
| 1313 | Famine | 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". | England | |
| 1315–1317 or 1322 | Great Famine of 1315–1317 | Europe | 7,500,000 |
| 1319–1320 | Great Bovine Pestilence | England | |
| 1321 | Famine | England | |
| 1326–1330 | Famine in Italy, Spain and Ireland | Europe | |
| 1330–1331 | Famine | Ireland | |
| 1330–1332 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1330–1333 | Famine | France | |
| 1333–1336 | Famine | Ireland | |
| 1333–1337 | Chinese famine of 1333–1337 | China | 6,000,000 |
| 1338–1339 | Famine | Ireland | |
| 1339–1341 | Famine in Italy, Spain and Ireland | Europe | |
| 1344–1345 | Famine in India, under the reign of Muhammad bin Tughluq | India | |
| 1346 | Famine | Ireland | |
| 1346–1348 | Widespread European famine, particularly in the south, including Italy (1346–1347), Spain (1346–1348) and France (1347) | Europe | |
| 1349–1351 | Famine affecting England (1351) | Great Britain | |
| 1349–1351 | Famine | France | |
| 1352–1353 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1358–1360 | Famine | France | |
| 1361–1362 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1364–1366 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1368 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1369 | Famine | England | |
| 1369–1370 | Famine | Florence, Tuscany, Italy | |
| 1371 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1371 | Famine | France | |
| 1374 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1374–1375 | Near pan-Mediterranean famine in France, Spain and Italy | Europe | |
| 1374–1375 | Famine | Egypt | |
| 1384–1385 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1389 | Famine | Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy | |
| 1390–1391 | Famine | France | |
| 1393 | Famine | Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy | |
| 1394–1396 | Famine | Egypt | |
| 1396–1407 | The Durga Devi famine | India | |
| 1402–1404 | Famine | Ottoman Empire | |
| 1403–1404 | Famine | Egypt | |
| 1409 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1410 | Famine | Ireland | |
| 1410–1412 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1420–1421 | Oei famine (due to drought) | Japan | |
| 1420–1421 | Famine | France | |
| 1420–1423 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1429–1432 | Famine | France | |
| 1431 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1432–1434 | The Hungry Years | Czech Republic | |
| 1434–1437 | Famine | Nordic countries | |
| 1435 | Famine | Spain | |
| 1436–1440 | Famine in Russia/Ukraine (1436–1438), the Low Countries and Great Britain (1437–1438), France (1437–1439) and Central Europe (1437–1440) | Europe | |
| 1441 | Famine in Mayapan | Mexico | |
| 1442–1445 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1446 | Famine | Nordic countries | |
| 1447 | Famine | Ireland | |
| 1450–1454 | Famine in the Aztec Empire, interpreted as the gods' need for sacrifices. | Mexico | |
| 1458 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1459–1461 | Kanshō famine (due to drought) | Japan | 82,000 |
| 1460 | The Deccan region faced significant famine, leading to severe food shortages. | India | |
| 1468 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1470 | Famine | France | |
| 1470 | Famine | Nordic countries | |
| 1472 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1472 | Famine in central Honshu due to drought | Japan | |
| 1472–1474 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1475–1477 | Famine | Spain | |
| 1476 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1477 | Famine in central Honshu | Japan | |
| 1481–1484 | Famine(s) in the Low Countries (1481–1482), France (1481–1483) and Italy (1482–1484) | Western Europe | |
| 1485 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1491–1492 | Famine | Low Countries | |
| 1491–1492 | Famine | Kai Province, Japan | |
| 1492 | Famine | Ireland | |
| 1493 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1497–1498 | Famine | Ireland | |
| 1502–1505 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1503 | Famine | Nordic countries | |
| 1504 | Famine during a drought | Spain | |
| 1506–1508 | Famine | Spain | |
| 1512 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1513 | Famine during a drought | Murcia, Spain | |
| 1515 | Famine | France | |
| 1515–1516 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1516–1518 | Famine | Central Europe | |
| 1518–1520 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1520–1523 | Famine | Nordic countries | |
| 1521–1522 | Famine(s) | France and the Low Countries | |
| 1521–1522 | Famine during a drought | Andalusia, Spain | |
| 1523 | Famine | Ireland | |
| 1525 | Famine | Russia/Ukraine | |
| 1527–1532 | Famine(s) in Italy (1527–1529), France (1527–1532, including Languedoc by 1528), Spain (1528–1530) and Central Europe (1530–1531) | Europe | |
| 1533–1534 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1535 | Famine in Ethiopia | Ethiopia | |
| 1539–1540 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1539–1540 | Tenbun famine (due to rain) | Japan | |
| 1540 | Famine during a drought | Spain | |
| 1544–1545 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1550–1551 | Famine in isolated areas of central Honshu due to an earthquake and typhoon | Japan | |
| 1550–1552 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1557–1558 | Famine in Honshu | Japan | |
| 1558–1560 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1566–1567 | Famine during a drought | Andalusia, Spain | |
| 1567–1570 | Famine in Harar, combined with plague. The Emir of Harar died. | Ethiopia | |
| 1569–1572 | Pan-European famine, including Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Low Countries, Nordic Countries, Russia and mostly east of Ukraine and lasting till 1574 | Europe | |
| 1573 | Famine due to drought | Western Japan | |
| 1586 | Famine and drought in Qishan County, Shaanxi province. Rice prices skyrocketed and there was widespread population migration and starvation. | China | |
| 1586–1587 | Pan-European famine, including Italy, France, Low Countries, Britain and Ireland, beginning in 1585 | Europe | |
| 1588 | Famine in Wai County, Hebei province, | China | |
| 1590–1593 | Pan-European famine, including Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Britain and the Nordic countries and lasting till 1598 | Europe | |
| 1592–1594 | Famine during the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598), known in Korea as the Kyegap Famine (Korean: 계갑대기근; Hanja: 癸甲大飢饉). | Joseon | |
| 1600–1601 | Famine in Emilia and southern Lombardy | Italy | |
| 1601–1603 | One of the worst famines in all of Russian history, with as many as 100,000 in Moscow and up to one-third of the country's population killed; see Russian famine of 1601–1603. The same famine killed about half of the Estonian population. | Russia | 2,000,000 |
| 1607–1608 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1618–1648 | Famines in Europe caused by Thirty Years' War | Europe | |
| 1618–1622 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1619 | Famine in Japan. During the Edo period, there were 154 famines, of which 21 were widespread and serious. | Japan | |
| 1626–1627 | Pyongsong Famine (Korean: 병정대기근; Hanja: 丙丁大飢饉) | Joseon | |
| 1628–1632 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1630–1632 | Deccan famine of 1630–1632 | India | 7,400,000 |
| 1630–1631 | Famine in Northwest China | China | |
| 1640–1643 | Kan'ei Great Famine | Japan | 50,000–100,000 |
| 1648–1649 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1648–1660 | The Deluge saw Poland lose an estimated 1/3 of its population due to wars, famine, and plague | Poland | |
| 1649 | Famine in northern England | England | |
| 1650–1652 | Famine in the east of France | France | |
| 1651–1653 | Famine throughout much of Ireland during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland | Ireland | |
| 1661 | Famine in India, due to lack of any rainfall for two years | India | |
| 1670s–1680s | Plague and famines | Spain | |
| 1670–1671 | Kyungshin Famine | Joseon | 1,000,000–1,500,000 |
| 1672 | Famine in southern Italy | Italy | |
| 1678–1679 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1680 | Famine in Sardinia | Italy (present day) | 80,000 |
| 1680–1682 | Enpo-Tenna famine (due to rain) | Japan | |
| 1680s | Famine in Sahel | West Africa | |
| 1690s | Famine which killed 5–15% of the population. | Scotland | 60,000–180,000 |
| 1693–1694 | Great Famine of 1693–1694 | France | 700,000–1,300,000 |
| 1693–1695 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1695–1696 | First Genroku famine (due to rain) | Japan | |
| 1695–1697 | Great Famine of Estonia killed about a fifth of Estonian and Livonian population (70,000–75,000 people). Famine also hit Sweden (80,000–100,000 dead) | The Swedish Empire, of which Swedish Estonia and Swedish Livonia were dominions at that time | 150,000–175,000 |
| 1696 | Famine in Aleppo | Ottoman Empire | |
| 1696–1699 | Ŭlbyŏng famine [ko] | Joseon | 1,410,000 per official Annals, but possibly higher. |
| 1696–1697 | Great Famine of Finland wiped out almost a third of the population | Finland, then part of Sweden proper | 150,000 |
| 1701–1703 | Second Genroku famine (due to rain) | Japan | |
| 1702–1704 | Famine in Deccan | India | 2,000,000 |
| 1708–1711 | Famine in East Prussia killed 250,000 people or 41% of its population. 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. The Great Northern War plague outbreak of 1708–1712 also affected East Prussia. | East Prussia | 250,000 |
| 1709 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1709–1710 | The fr:Grande famine de 1709 | France | 600,000 |
| 1716 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1722 | Famine | Arabia | |
| 1724 | Famine | Italy | |
| 1727–1728 | Famine in the English Midlands | England | |
| 1730s | Famine in Damascus | Ottoman Empire | |
| 1732–1733 | Kyōhō famine | Japan | 12,172–169,000 |
| 1738–1756 | Famine in West Africa, half the population of Timbuktu died of starvation | West Africa | |
| 1740–1741 | Irish Famine (1740–1741) | Ireland | 300,000–480,000 |
| 1750–1756 | Famine in the Senegambia region | Senegal, Gambia (present day) | |
| 1755–1757 | Horeki famine (due to rain) | Japan | |
| 1757 | Famine | Syria | |
| 1764 | Famine in Italy (including the Kingdom of Naples) during a period of drought | Italy | |
| 1767 | Famine during a period of drought | Italy | |
| 1769–1773 | Great Bengal famine of 1770, 10 million dead (one third of population) | India, Bangladesh (present day) | 10,000,000 |
| 1770–1771 | Famines in Czech lands killed hundreds of thousands | Czech Republic (present day) | 100,000+ |
| 1771–1772 | Famine in Saxony and southern Germany | Germany | |
| 1773 | Famine in Sweden | Sweden | |
| 1776 | Famine following a series of hurricanes that struck the island | Martinique | |
| 1779 | Famine in Rabat | Morocco | |
| 1782 | Famine in Karahisar | Ottoman Empire | |
| 1782–1788 | Great Tenmei famine | Japan | 20,000–920,000 |
| 1783 | Famine in Iceland caused by the eruption of Laki killed one-fifth of Iceland's population | Iceland | |
| 1783–1784 | Chalisa famine | India | 11,000,000 |
| 1784 | Widespread famine throughout Egypt, one-sixth of the population died | Egypt | |
| 1784–1785 | Famine in Tunisia | Tunisia | |
| 1788 | The two years previous to the French Revolution saw bad harvests and harsh winters, possibly because of a strong El Niño cycle or caused by the 1783 Laki eruption in Iceland. | France | |
| 1789 | Famine in Ethiopia afflicted the Amhara and Tigray Regions | Ethiopia | |
| 1789–1793 | Doji bara famine or Skull famine | India | 11,000,000 |
| 1796 | Famine caused by locusts | Northern Ethiopia | |
| 1799–1800 | Famine in Diyarbakır | Ottoman Empire | |
| 1801 | Famine (during a food crisis in Milan lasting 1799–1801) | Italy | |
| 1804–1872, 1913 | A series of 14 famines in Austrian Galicia | Poland, Ukraine (present day) | 400,000–550,000 |
| 1809–1815 | Crop failure due to dry weather conditions. | Joseon (Korea) | 2,000,000 |
| 1811–1812 | Famine devastated Madrid | Spain | 20,000 |
| 1815 | Eruption of Mount Tambora. Tens of thousands died in subsequent famine | Indonesia | 10,000 |
| 1816–1817 | Year Without a Summer | Europe | 65,000 |
| 1830–1833 | Famine, claimed to have killed 42% of the population | Cape Verde | 30,000 |
| 1832–1833 | Guntur famine of 1832 | India | 150,000 |
| 1833–1837 | Tenpō famine | Japan | |
| 1837–1838 | Agra famine of 1837–1838 | India | 800,000 |
| 1845–1857 | Highland Potato Famine | Scotland | 150,000 estimated |
| 1845–1852 | 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 | Ireland | 600,000 to over 1,500,000 that emigrated |
| 1846 | Famine led to the peasant revolt known as "Maria da Fonte" in the north of Portugal | Portugal | |
| 1846–1848 | The Newfoundland Potato Famine, related to the Great Famine of Ireland | Newfoundland, present-day Canada | |
| 1849–1850 | Demak and Grobogan in central Java, caused by four successive crop failures due to drought. | Indonesia | 83,000 |
| 1860–1861 | Black Winter of 1860–1861 | Qajar Iran | |
| 1860–1861 | Upper Doab famine of 1860–1861 | India | 2,000,000 |
| 1863–1867 | Famine in Cape Verde | Cape Verde | 30,000 |
| 1866 | Orissa famine of 1866 | India | 1,000,000 |
| 1866 | Keio famine (due to rain) | Japan | |
| 1866–1868 | Finnish famine of 1866–1868. About 15% of the entire population died | Finland | 150,000+ |
| 1866–1868 | Famine in French Algeria | French Algeria | 820,000 |
| 1867–1869 | Swedish famine of 1867–1869 | Sweden | |
| 1869 | Rajputana famine of 1869 | India | 1,500,000 |
| 1869–1870 | Famines due to weather, with North Hamgyong Province particularly affected. | Joseon | |
| 1870–1872 | Persian famine of 1870–1872, extended by some scholars from 1869 to 1873 | Qajar Iran | 200,000–3,000,000 Estimates vary |
| 1873–1874 | Famine in Anatolia caused by drought and floods | Turkey (present day) | |
| 1873–1874 | Bihar famine of 1873–1874 | India | |
| 1876–1878 | Great Indian Famine of 1876–1878 | India | 5,500,000 |
| 1876–1879 | Northern Chinese Famine of 1876–1879 | China | 9,000,000–13,000,000 |
| 1876–1878 | Brazilian drought of 1877–1878, also known as the Grande Seca | Brazil | 500,000 |
| 1878–1880 | St. Lawrence Island famine, Alaska | United States | 1,000 |
| 1879 | 1879 Famine in Ireland. Unlike previous famines, this famine mainly caused hunger and food shortages but little mortality. | Ireland | |
| 1879 | Famine in the Eastern areas of the Empire | Ottoman Empire | |
| 1883–1885 | Famine caused by failure of rainy seasons and drought. | East Africa,Tanzania and Kenya | |
| 1888–1889 | Famine in Orrisa, Ganjam and Northern Bihar | India | 150,000 |
| 1888–1892 | Ethiopian Great famine. About one-third of the population died. Conditions worsen with cholera outbreaks (1889–92), a typhus epidemic, and a major smallpox epidemic (1889–90). | Ethiopia | 1,000,000 |
| 1891–1892 | Russian famine of 1891–1892. Beginning along the Volga River and spreading to the Urals and the Black Sea. | Russia | 375,000–500,000 |
| 1895–1898 | Famine during the Cuban War of Independence | Cuba | 200,000–300,000 |
| 1896–1902 | Indian famine of 1896–1897 and Indian famine of 1899–1900 due to drought and British policies. | India | 2,000,000 (British territories), mortality unknown in princely states |
| 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 | East Africa, Kenya and Uganda | |
| 1900–1903 | Famine in Cape Verde | Cape Verde | 11,000–20,000 |
| 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. | China (Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces) and Inner Mongolia | 200,000 in Shaanxi province. |
| 1904–1906 | Famine in Spain | Spain | |
| 1906–1907 | Chinese famine of 1906–1907 | China | 20,000,000–25,000,000 |
| 1913–1914 | Famine, grain price rose "thirtyfold" | Ethiopia | |
| 1914–1918 | Mount Lebanon famine during World War I which was caused by the Entente and Ottoman blockade of food and to a swarm of locusts which killed up to 200,000 people, estimated to be half of the Mount Lebanon population | Lebanon | 200,000 |
| 1914–1919 | Famine caused by the Allied blockade of Germany during World War I until Germany signed the Treaty of Versailles. | Germany | 763,000 |
| 1917 | Famine in German East Africa | German East Africa | 300,000 |
| 1917–1919 | Persian famine of 1917–1919 | Iran | 2,000,000, but estimates range as high as 10,000,000 |
| 1918–1919 | Rumanura famine in Ruanda-Burundi, causing large migrations to the Congo | Rwanda and Burundi (present day) | |
| 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 | |
| 1920–1921 | Famine in northern China | China | 500,000 |
| 1920–1922 | Famine in Cape Verde | Cape Verde | 24,000–25,000 |
| 1921 | Russian famine of 1921–1922 | Russia | 5,000,000 |
| 1921–1922 | 1921–1922 famine in Tatarstan | Russia | 500,000–2,000,000 |
| 1921–1923 | 1921–1923 famine in Soviet Russian Ukraine | Ukraine | 250,000–1,000,000 |
| 1924–1925 | Famine in Volga German colonies in Russia. One-third of the entire population perished | Russia | |
| 1924–1925 | Minor famine in Ireland due to heavy rain | Irish Free State | |
| 1926 | Famine in Darfur | Darfur, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan | |
| 1928–1929 | Famine in Ruanda-Burundi, causing large migrations to the Congo | Rwanda and Burundi (present day) | |
| 1928–1930 | Chinese famine of 1928–1930 in northern China. The drought resulted in millions of deaths | China | 3,000,000–10,000,000 |
| 1930–1934 | First Kere | Madagascar | 500,000 |
| 1932–1933 | Soviet famine of 1932–1933, including famine in Ukraine, and famine in Kazakhstan, caused by Soviet collectivization policy, abnormal cold period, and bad harvests in the years of 1931–1932. | Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Kazakh ASSR | 5,000,000–7,000,000 |
| 1939–1952 | Famine in Spain caused primarily by the implementation of the autarkic economy | Spain | 200,000 |
| 1940–1943 | Famine in Cape Verde | Cape Verde | 20,000 |
| 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). | Occupied Poland | |
| 1940–1948 | Famine in Morocco between 1940 and 1948, because of refueling system installed by France. | Morocco | 200,000 |
| 1941–1944 | 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 °C (−40 °F). According to other estimates about 800,000 out of an immediate pre-siege population of about 2.5 million perished. | Soviet Union | 800,000–1,000,000 |
| 1941–1944 | Famine in Greece caused by the Axis occupation. | Greece | 300,000 |
| 1941–1942 | Famine in Kharkiv. In a city with a population of about 450,000 while under German occupation, there was a famine starting in the winter of 1941–42 that lasted until the end of September 1942. The local administration recorded 19,284 deaths between the second half of December 1941 and the second half of September 1942, thereof 11,918 (59.6%) from hunger. 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. British historian Alex Kay estimates that at least 30,000 city inhabitants died in the famine. According to Soviet sources about 70–80,000 people died of starvation in Kharkiv during the occupation by Nazi Germany. | Soviet Union | 30,000–80,000 |
| 1941–1943 | Famine in Kyiv. On April 1, 1942, well after the first winter of famine, Kyiv officially had about 352,000 inhabitants. In the middle of 1943—more than four months before the end of German rule—the city officially had about 295,600. Death by starvation was not the only reason for the rapid decline in population: deportation to Germany and Nazi shootings also played their part. Nevertheless, starvation was an important factor. British historian Alex Kay estimates that about 10,000 city inhabitants died of starvation. | Soviet Union | 10,000 |
| 1942–1943 | Chinese famine of 1942–1943 | Henan, China | 700,000 |
| 1942–1943 | Iranian famine of 1942–1943 | Iran | 4,000,000 |
| 1943 | Bengal famine of 1943 | Bengal, British India | 2,100,000 |
| 1943–1944 | Ruzagayura famine in Ruanda-Urundi, causing emigrations to Congo | Rwanda and Burundi (present day) | 36,000–50,000 |
| 1943–1945 | Famine in Hadhramaut | Yemen (present day) | 10,000 |
| 1943–1946 | Second Kere | Madagascar | 1,000,000 |
| 1944–1945 | Java under Japanese occupation | Java, Indonesia | 2,400,000 |
| 1944–1945 | Dutch famine of 1944–1945 during World War II | Netherlands | 20,000 |
| 1944–1945 | Vietnamese famine of 1944–1945 | Vietnam | 600,000–2,000,000 |
| 1945–1947 | Famine in Königsberg (Kaliningrad) | Soviet Union | 57,000–76,500 |
| 1946–1947 | Hungerwinter | Germany | >100,000 |
| 1946–1947 | Soviet famine of 1946–1947 | Soviet Union | 1,000,000–1,500,000 |
| 1946–1948 | Famine in Cape Verde | Cape Verde | 30,000 |
| 1949 | Nyasaland famine of 1949 | Malawi | 200 |
| 1950 | 1950 Caribou Inuit famine | Canada | 60 |
| 1955–1958 | Third Kere | Madagascar | |
| 1958 | Famine in Tigray | Ethiopia | 100,000 |
| 1959–1961 | The Great Chinese Famine Some researchers also include the year 1958 or 1962. | China (mainland) | 15,000,000–55,000,000 |
| 1966–1967 | Lombok, drought and malnutrition, exacerbated by restrictions on regional rice trade | Indonesia | 50,000 |
| 1966–1967 | Rice crisis | Burma | |
| 1967–1970 | Famine caused by Nigerian Civil War and blockade | Biafra | 2,000,000 |
| 1968–1972 | Sahel drought created a famine that killed a million people | Mauritania, Mali, Chad, Niger and Burkina Faso | 1,000,000 |
| 1970–1972 | Fourth Kere | Madagascar | |
| 1971–1973 | Afghanistan drought | Afghanistan | |
| 1972–1973 | Famine in Ethiopia caused by drought and poor governance; failure of the government to handle this crisis led to the fall of Haile Selassie and to Derg rule | Ethiopia | 60,000 |
| 1973 | Darfur drought | Darfur, Sudan | 1,000 |
| 1974 | Bangladesh famine of 1974 | Bangladesh | 27,000–1,500,000 |
| 1975–1979 | Khmer Rouge. A maximum estimate of 500,000 Cambodians lost their lives to famine | Cambodia | 500,000 |
| 1980–1981 | Caused by drought and conflict | Uganda | 30,000 |
| 1980–1982 | Fifth Kere | Madagascar | |
| 1982–1983 | Sixth Kere | Madagascar | |
| 1982–1985 | Famine caused by the Mozambican Civil War | Mozambique | 100,000 |
| 1983–1985 | 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia | Ethiopia | 400,000–600,000 |
| 1984–1985 | Famine caused by drought, economic crisis and the Second Sudanese Civil War | Sudan | 240,000 |
| 1986–1987 | Seventh Kere | Madagascar | |
| 1988 | Famine caused by the Second Sudanese Civil War | Sudan | 100,000 |
| 1988–1989 | Eighth Kere | Madagascar | |
| 1991–1992 | Famine in Somalia caused by drought and civil war | Somalia | 300,000 |
| 1992–1994 | Ninth Kere | Madagascar | |
| 1993 | 1993 Sudan famine | Sudan | 20,000 |
| 1994–1998 | North Korean famine. Scholars estimate 600,000 died of starvation (other estimates range from 200,000 to 3.5 million). | North Korea | 200,000–3,500,000 |
| 1995–1996 | Tenth Kere | Madagascar | |
| 1997–1998 | Eleventh Kere | Madagascar | |
| 1998 | 1998 Sudan famine caused by war and drought | Sudan | 70,000 |
| 1998 | 1998 Afghanistan famine | Afghanistan | |
| 1998–2000 | Famine in Ethiopia. The situation worsened by Eritrean–Ethiopian War | Ethiopia | |
| 1998–2004 | Second Congo War. 2.7 million people died, mostly from starvation and disease | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 2,700,000 |
| 2003–2005 | Famine during the War in Darfur | Sudan | 200,000 |
| 2004–2005 | Twelfth Kere | Madagascar | |
| 2005–2006 | 2005–2006 Niger food crisis. At least three million were affected in Niger and 10 million throughout West Africa | Niger and West Africa | |
| 2009–2013 | Thirteenth Kere | Madagascar | |
| 2011–2012 | Famine in Somalia, brought on by the 2011 East Africa drought | Somalia | 285,000 |
| 2012 | Famine in West Africa, brought on by the 2012 Sahel drought | Senegal, Gambia, Niger, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso | |
| 2014–2017 | Fourteenth Kere | Madagascar | |
| 2016–present | Famine in Yemen, arising from the Yemeni Civil War and the subsequent blockade of Yemen by Saudi Arabia | Yemen | 85,000 children as of 2017. Unknown number of adults. |
| 2017 | Famine in South Sudan Famine in Somalia, due to 2017 Somali drought. Famine in Nigeria | South Sudan, Unity State, Somalia, and Nigeria. | |
| 2020–present | Famine in the Tigray War | Tigray, Ethiopia | 150,000–200,000+ |
| 2021–present | 2021–present Madagascar famine | Madagascar | |
| 2021–present | Aftermath of the War in Afghanistan | Afghanistan | |
| 2024–present | 2024 Sudan famine | Sudan | 1050+ |
| 2024–present | 2024 famine in Haiti | Haiti |