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Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
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1 | World population | 18326 |
2 | Life expectancy | 7356 |
3 | Overpopulation | 7185 |
4 | Famine | 3301 |
5 | Disaster | 3275 |
6 | Starvation | 2679 |
7 | Food security | 2174 |
8 | Livy 4.13 | 1797 |
9 | Medieval demography | 648 |
10 | Depopulation | 100 |
11 | Late Victorian Holocausts (book on the great ENSO famines of 1876â80, 1896â1900) | 63 |
12 | List of famines in China | 25 |
13 | Agriculture and population limits | 5 |
14 | List of disasters | < 5 |
15 | Collapse (book) | < 5 |
16 | List of natural disasters by death toll | < 5 |
17 | 2007â2008 world food price crisis | < 5 |
18 | Climate changes of 535â536 | < 5 |
Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
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1 | 1315â1317 Great Famine in Europe | < 5 |
Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
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1 | 1535 famine in Ethiopia | 124 |
Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
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1 | 1789 Famine in Ethiopia afflicted "all the provinces" | 124 |
2 | 1789â92 Doji bara famine or Skull famine in India | 36 |
3 | 1783â84 Chalisa famine in South Asia | 34 |
4 | 1740-1741 famine in Ireland | < 5 |
Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
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1 | 1879 Famine in Ireland | 37 |
2 | 1866 Orissa famine of 1866 in India; one million perished | 19 |
3 | 1830s Tenpo famine (Japan) | 17 |
4 | 1869 Rajputana famine of 1869 in India; one million and a half perished | 17 |
5 | 1866â1868 Famine in Finland. About 15% of the entire population died | < 5 |
Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
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1 | 1941â44 Leningrad famine caused by a 900-day blockade by German troops. About one million Leningrad residents starved, froze, or were bombed to death in the winter of 1941â42, when supply routes to the city were cut off and temperatures dropped to â40 degrees. | 1849 |
2 | 1943 famine in Bengal(India) | 530 |
3 | 1996 North Korean famine [link] [link]. Scholars estimate 600,000 died of starvation (other estimates range from 200,000 to 3.5 million). | 444 |
4 | 1944 famine in the Netherlands during World War II, more than 20,000 deaths | 267 |
5 | 1921 famine in Russia killed 5 million | 245 |
6 | 1945 famine in Vietnam | 138 |
7 | 1973 famine in Ethiopia; failure of the government to handle this crisis led to fall of Haile Selassie and to Derg rule | 124 |
8 | 1974 famine in Bangladesh | 63 |
9 | 1998 famine in Sudan caused by war and drought | 50 |
10 | 1946â1947 famine in Soviet Union killed 1-1.5 million | 30 |
11 | 1984 famine in Ethiopia | < 5 |
12 | 1921â1922 Famine in Tatarstan | < 5 |
Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
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1 | 2008â Tajikistan food crisis | 4131 |
2 | 2009â Kenya food crisis 10 million Kenyans face starvation. | 3778 |
3 | 2006 Horn of Africa food crisis | 22 |
4 | 2005â06 Niger food crisis | < 5 |
5 | 2005 Malawi food crisis | < 5 |
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