Global Causalities per 100k from War and Famine Each Decade Since 1900 [OC]
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Global Causalities per 100k from War and Famine Each Decade Since 1900 [OC]
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War and famine are two things that are often interlinked with one another and have caused the deaths of several millions of people over the course of human history.
In “modern” history (i.e., the past 100 or so years), war and famine continue to be two issues often linked to one another but generally speaking, the amount of people affected by it has gradually decreased after each passing decade.
War deaths peaked between the 1910s-1950s and famine deaths peaked between the 1920s-1960s before both started dropping off significantly since the 1980s and reaching new lows in the 2010s.
Data is pulled from these two sources:
[https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace](https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace)
[https://ourworldindata.org/famines#long-term-trends-in-global-famine-mortality](https://ourworldindata.org/famines#long-term-trends-in-global-famine-mortality)
[https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-years](https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-years)
It’s always so sickening to think about every life lost here, not quickly shot in the head, or blown up in an instant, nope, they died, slowly in so much pain, surrounded by their families and friends dying too. Horrific and heartbreaking.
I wonder how much of this famine reduction is down to IR8.
See now this,this ia progress.we need to be really proud of!
Decreased soo much here that they changed the term “hunger” to “food insecurity,” which is not knowing where you’re going to get your next meal. That is one of the top arguments couples have. They dont know what they want to eat.
https://www.audacy.com/kezk/blogs/greg-hewitt/couples-argue-about-restaurant-choices-constantly
Interesting to see it almost always went back and forth between war and famine each decade.
2020’s will likely be an increase from the 2010’s, with the Tigray war, Russias invasion of Ukraine and Israels invasion of Gaza.
It’s easy to focus on what’s wrong with the world but data like this makes it easy to see that all things considered, these are the “good old days” we’re one day going to look back on with envy.
Friendly reminder that the big reason famines went away after the 1960s is due to the work of [Norman Borlaug](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug), who is widely credited with preventing at least 1,000,000,000 deaths due to starvation. That is more lives saved than anyone else in the history of the world.
The right side of this graph is the Rules based International order and artificial fertilizer. The left of this graph is great power competition that Russia and China are no trying to move the world toward.