Daily chart: Famine mortality | The Economist
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A history of global famine deaths
EARLIER this month the United Nations estimated that 258,000 people died in the Somalia famine between October 2010 and April 2012. The number of deaths caused widespread shock and the proportion—4.6% of the population—was shockingly high. According to Stephen Devereux, an economist at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, famine deaths rarely exceed 2-3% of a country’s population. But the absolute death toll was not especially high by recent historical measures.