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Expanded table showing methods and breakdown by years
Welcome. This table is under construction for eventual inclusion in the Great Leap Forward article. It will give estimates of famine deaths broken down by the year the deaths occurred and estimator, and give a brief description of the methods used to arrive at the estimates. If you have referenced information on any of the estimates in the table, or on estimates not yet included, please add it.

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note: Non-famine democide also claimed millions of lives during the GLF, as it did in the years before and after. Dikotter makes the distinction between total "unnecessary" deaths and deaths caused by "torture" and people "summarily killed" (p.xii-xiii), whereas other estimates only calculate total excess deaths. Although democide, including labor camp deaths but not other famine deaths, was somewhat higher during the GLF than previously in the PRC, this was in part due to increased deadliness of labor camps during the famine (Rummel p251). Therefore the baseline death rate of other authors can be considered to include non-famine democide, leaving famine deaths as the primary contributor to the calculated excess deaths. However, the (non-famine) democide rate decreased after the GLF (Rummel p.208), so Coale's, Ashton's, Banister's, and Chang's famine death estimates, and by extension Becker's and Rummel's, may include non-famine democide as well.