List of famines

This is a non-exhaustive list of famines.

Main article lists

 * Bengal famine
 * Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union
 * Famine in India
 * Famines in the Czech lands
 * Famines in Ethiopia
 * Great Bengal famine of 1770
 * Great Famine of 1876–1878
 * Great Chinese Famine
 * Holodomor
 * List of famines in China
 * North Korean famine
 * Timeline of major famines in India during British rule

Other articles

 * 2007–2008 world food price crisis
 * 2010–2012 world food price crisis
 * 2022–2023 food crises
 * Disaster
 * Famine Early Warning Systems Network
 * Famine events
 * Famine relief
 * Famine scales
 * Food security
 * Food security during the COVID-19 pandemic
 * List of natural disasters by death toll
 * List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll
 * Live Aid
 * Medieval demography
 * Population decline
 * Potato famine
 * Starvation
 * Theories of famines
 * World population