The Great Irish Famine which killed over one million people. Another million emigrated to the US
Many people are saying that Joseph Stalin killed 20 million people. WRONG.... Stalin killed 42 million people.
personally, i think the potato famine was absolutely worse than the Jewish holocaust.... the potato famine killed a million irish people.
The famine of 1912, killed many people.
The potato famine in Ireland which was caused by the potato blight killed in the region of 2 million people out of a pre-famine population of 9 million, and it started emigration to America, Canada, Australia and other places, displacing another one million during the famine, and many more since.
the potato crop was attacked by a fungus called potato blight
1876 is when the Great Famine of India began. It lasted two years and is estimated to have killed up to 5.5 million people.
The genicide of Mao Zedong was the thousands of people he ordered to death during his revolution. Mao Zedong killed more people than Hilter and Stalin's deaths combined.
The population of Ireland decrease do to disease and starvation. Between death and emigration the population reduced by about 2 million. To this day, the population of Ireland has not reached the level of about 8 million that was there before the famine.
The country was struck by a terrible famine last year. Three thousand people died in our town because of famine. World famine and natural disasters are not the same because famine can be addressed by governments and individuals to save the lives of human beings.
around 1 million
About 8.5 million per year