5th century BC

In 440 BC, there was a famine in ancient Rome.

5th century

Famine in Western Europe. Between 400 and 800 AD, the population of the city of Rome decreased by 90%.

7th century

In 639, the Arab Empire was starved
In 650, there was a famine in India

8th century

Around 750, there was a famine in Spain

9th century

In 800–1000 AD, the Maya famine and the Destruction of the Mayan Civilization.
809 Famine in the Frankish Empire.

10th century

927, Famine in the Byzantine Empire
963–964, Irish famine
968 Famine in Egypt, half a million people died

11th century

In 1005, there was a famine in England, and in the Middle Ages, there were 95 famines in Britain.
1016, famine throughout Europe.
Famine in India 1022, 1033, 1052.
1025, Famine in Egypt.
1030–1032, Famine in France.
1064–1072, Famine in Egypt.
In 1051, the Toltec civilization famine.
In 1066, famine broke out in England.
In 1097, palestine was starved, and half a million people died.
In 1097, a famine in France killed 100,000 people.

12th century

1199–1202, Famine in Egypt

13th century

1230 famine in the Novgorod Republic
1231–1232, Famine in Japan
In 1235, the English famine killed 20,000 people in London alone
1255, famine in Portugal.
1258, Famine in Germany and Italy
1275–1299, Anasazi culture famine, the destruction of this culture.
1294, Famine in England

14th century

1315-1317, famine in Europe
1333, famine in Portugal
1333–1334, famine in Spain
1344–1345, famine in India
1387, Tamerlane famine
1390, famine in England
1396–1407, Famine in India.

15th century

1403–1404, Famine in Egypt
In 1441, famine broke out in Mayapan
1445, famine on the Korean Peninsula
1450–1454, famine in the Aztec Empire
1460–1461, famine in Japan
1481–1483, famine in France

16th century

1504, Spanish famine
1518, The Venetian Famine
1528, famine in Languedoc, France
1535, famine in Ethiopia
In 1540, the Spanish famine
1555, famine in England
1567–1570, Famine in Harar, Ethiopia
1574–1576 Famine in Istanbul and Anatolia
1586, famine in England.
In the 1590s, there was a famine in Europe

17th century

1599–1600 Spanish famine
1601–1603 The Russian famine killed 100,000 people in Moscow alone.
1611 Famine in Anatolia
1618–1648 European famine
1619 Famine in Japan. During the Edo period, there were a total of 154 famines in Japan, 21 of which were widespread and severe.
1623–1624 English famine
1630–1631 India famine, two million people died.
1636 Spanish famine
1648–1660 Polish famine
1649 Famine in northern England
1650–1652 Famine in eastern France
1651–1653 Irish famine.
1661 Famine in India
1661–1662 Famine in Morocco
1661–1662 French famine
1669 Famine in Bengal
The Spanish famine of the 1670s and 1680s
1680 Famine in Sardinia
1680 Famine in Japan
In 1680, the Sahel famine
In 1690, there was a famine in Scotland, and 15% of the population died
1693–1694 Famine in France, more than two million people died.
In 1695–1697, the Estonian famine killed 70,000–75,000 people, or about one-fifth of the country at that time.
In 1695–1697, the Swedish famine killed 80,000–100,000 people
In 1696–1697, Finland suffered a famine and a third of the population died

18th century

1702–1704 Famine in the Deccan Plateau in India, two million deaths
1706–1707 French famine
The famine of 1708–1711 in East Prussia killed 250,000 people, equivalent to 41% of the population
1709–1710 French famine
1722 Arab famine
Famine in England 1727–1728
1732 Famine in Japan
1738–1739 French famine
In 1738–1756, a famine in West Africa killed half of Timbuktu's population from starvation
1740–1741, Irish famine
1741, famine in Norway
In 1750, the Spanish famine
1750–1756, famine in Senegal
1764 Famine in Naples
1769–1773 Famine in Bengal, 15 million deaths (one-third of the population)
1770–1771 The Czech famine killed hundreds of thousands of people
1771–1772 Famine in Saxony and southern Germany
1773 Swedish famine
1779 Famine in Rabat, Morocco
Famine in Scotland in the 1780s
Famine in Japan in the 1780s
1783 Famine in Iceland, one-fifth of the population dies
1783–84, famine in South Asia
1784 Famine in Egypt
1784–1785 Tunisia famine, one-fifth of the population died
1788 Famine in France.
1789 Famine in Ethiopia
1789–92 Famine in India

19th century

1800–1801 Irish famine
1811–1812 Madrid famine, nearly 20,000 deaths
1815 Indonesia famine, tens of thousands of deaths
1816–1817 Europe
1830 Cape Verde famine, losing almost half of the population
1830s Famine in Japan
1835 The Egyptian famine killed 200,000 people
1844–1846 Belgian famine
During the 1845–1857 famine in Scotland, two million Scots migrated to the countryside
The Irish famine of 1845–1849 killed more than a million people
1846 Famine in Portugal.
1866 Famine in India, a million people died
In 1866–1868, Finland suffered a famine that killed about 15% of the population
1869 India famine, 1.5 million people died
1870–1871 Persian famine killed two million people
1873–1874 Famine in Anatolia
The Irish famine of 1879
1876–1879 Famine in India, Brazil and North America (and other countries, including our own). In India alone, 5.25 million people died
1878-1880 Famine on St. Lawrence Island in Alaska
1888 Famine in Sudan
1888–1892 Ethiopia famine, about a third of the population died.
1891–1892 Russian famine, 375,000 to 500,000 deaths
1896–1902 Famine in India

During the Great Famine of 1876-1878 in British India, 10.3 million people died of starvation in Tamil Nadu.

20th century

1906, 1911 Russian famine
1914–1918 Mount Lebanon famine killed about a third of the population
1914–1918 Famine in Belgium
1915–1916 Armenian famine.
1916–1917 German famine.
1916–1917 Russian famine
1917–1919 Persian famine. The equivalent of a quarter of the population of northern Iran died.
1917–1921 Famine in Turkestan, where one-sixth of the population died
In 1921–22, five million people died of famine in Russia
In 1921-22, there was a famine in Tatarstan
1921–1922 Volga German famine. One third of the population died.
1928–1929 Rwanda-Udon Land famine
1932–1933 Ukraine, some parts of Russia and the North Caucasus. Two million and six hundred thousand to ten million people died.
1932–1933 Kazakhstan famine, 1.2 million to 1.5 million deaths.
1940–1943 Famine in the Warsaw Jewish Quarter
1941–1944, Greek famine.
In 1943, there was a famine in Bengal
1943 Rwanda-Udon Land famine
In 1944, the Netherlands was starved, and more than 20,000 people died
In 1945, there was a famine in Vietnam
In 1946, there was a great famine in India
In 1947, the Soviet Union was starving, and one million to one and a half million people died
1958 Famine in Tigli State, Ethiopia, claiming 100,000 deaths.
1965–1967 India famine, 1.5 million deaths
1967–1970 Famine in Bialfala
1968–1972 Famine in the Sahel, one million deaths
1973 Famine in Ethiopia.
1974 Famine in Bangladesh
1975–1979 Khmer Rouge famine. Two million people died.
1980 Famine in The Karamoja region of Uganda
In 1984-1985, there was a famine in Ethiopia
1991–1993 Famine in Somalia
1996 Famine in North Korea. Six hundred thousand people died of starvation.
Famine in Sudan in 1998
1998 Famine in northeastern Brazil.
1998–2000 Famine in Ethiopia.
1998–2004 Congo famine. 3.8 million people died, mostly due to hunger and disease.
2000–2009 Famine in Zimbabwe.

Starvation on the streets of Kharkiv, Ukraine, in 1933

21st century

2003 – Famine in Darfur, Sudan
2005- Malawi food crisis
2005–06 Food crisis in Niger
2006 Food crisis in the Horn of Africa
2008 – Myanmar's food crisis
2008 – Famine in North Korea
2008 – Food crisis in the Horn of Africa
2008 – Afghan food crisis
2008 – Bangladesh food crisis
2008 – East Africa food crisis
2008 – Tajik food crisis
2009 – Kenya food crisis
2011 - Famine in the Horn of Africa
2020 - COVID-19 rages and many countries are in a food crisis

Some of the data has yet to be examined.

Chronicles of famine abroad