- Great Chinese Famine: 15 - 55 million (1959-1961)
- Chinese famine of 1906-1907: 20 - 25 million
- Chalisa famine: 11 million (1783-1784)
- Doji bara famine: 11 million (1789-1793)
- Great Bengal Famine of 1770: 10 million
- Northern Chinese famine of 1876-1879: 9 - 13 million
- Great Famine of 1315-1317: 7.5 million
- Deccan famine of 1630-1632: 7.4 million
- Chinese famine of 1333-1337: 6 million
- Great Indian Famine of 1876-1878: 5.5 million
- Soviet famine of 1932-1933: 5 - 7 million
- Russian famine of 1921-1922: 5 million
- Chinese famine of 1928-1930: 3 - 10 million
- Second Congo War: 2.7 million (1998-2004)
- Java under Japanese occupation: 2.4 million (1944-1945)
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Top 20 deadliest famines
This post is a list of the top 15 deadliest famines. Source: Wikipedia
Top 10 deadliest natural disasters (non-epidemic, non-famine)
This post is a list of the top 10 deadliest natural disasters by highest estimate (non-epidemic and non-famine). Source: Wikipedia
- 1931 China floods: 4.0 million
- 1887 Yellow River flood: 2.0 million
- 1976 Tangshan earthquake: 650 thousand
- 1970 Bhola cyclone: 500 thousand
- 2010 Haiti earthquake: 310 thousand
- 526 Antioch earthquake: 300 thousand
- 1839 Coringa cyclone: 300 thousand
- 1737 Calcutta cyclone: 300 thousand
- 1920 Haiyuan earthquake: 273 thousand
- 1139 Ganja earthquake: 230 thousand
Top 20 deadliest genocides
This post is a list of the top 20 deadliest genocides. Source: Wikipedia
- The Holocaust: 5.1 - 7.0 million (1941-1945)
- Holodomor: 3.0 - 5.0 million (1932-1933)
- Cambodian genocide: 1.3 - 3.0 million (1975-1979)
- Bangladesh genocide: 0.3 - 3.0 million (1971)
- Circassian genocide: 1.0 - 2.0 million (1864-1867)
- Armenian genocide: 0.6 - 1.5 million (1915-1917)
- Siege of Leningrad: 1.0 million (1941-1944)
- Albigensian Crusade: 0.2 - 1.0 million (1209-1229)
- Taíno genocide: 60 - 960 thousand (1492-1514)
- Greek genocide / Pontic genocide: 300 - 900 thousand (1914-1922)
- Rwandan genocide: 490 - 800 thousand (1994)
- Sayfo: 200 - 750 thousand (1915-1919)
- Genocide in Tigray: 160 - 600 thousand (2020-2022)
- Dzungar genocide: 480 - 600 thousand (1755-1758)
- Darfur genocide: 90 - 500 thousand (2003-2005)
- Deportation of the Chechens and Ingush: 100 - 400 thousand (1944-1948)
- Genocide of Acholi and Lango people: 100 - 300 thousand (1972-1978)
- Ikiza: 80 - 300 thousand (1972)
- Hamidian massacres: 200 - 300 thousand (1894-1896)
- Massacres of Albanians in the Balkan Wars: 120 - 270 thousand (1912-1913)
Top 20 wars by death toll
This post is a list of the top 20 wars by death toll. Source: Wikipedia
- World War II: 70 - 85 million (1939-1945)
- Mongol invasions and conquests: 20 - 60 million (1206-1368)
- Three Kingdoms: 34 million (220 - 280 AD)
- Taiping Rebellion: 20 - 30 million (1850-1864)
- Manchu Conquest of China: 25 million (1618-1638)
- World War I: 15 - 22 million (1914-1918)
- Conquests of Timur: 7 - 20 million (1369-1405)
- An Lushan Rebellion: 13 million (754 - 763 AD)
- Spanish conquest of Mexico: 10 million (1519-1530)
- Russian Civil War: 7- 10 million (1917-1922)
- Chinese Civil War: 4 - 9 million (1927-1949)
- Crusades: 1 - 9 million (1095-1291)
- Thirty Years' War: 4 - 8 million (1618-1648)
- Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: 7 million (1533-1572)
- Reconquista: 7 million (718 - 1492 AD)
- French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: 4 - 7 million (1792-1815)
- Conquests of Menelik II: 6 million (1878-1904)
- Second Congo War: 3 - 5 million (1998-2003)
- Spanish conquest of New Granada: 5 million (1525-1540)
- Deccan wars: 4 - 5 million (1680-1707)
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