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sparrows · china, 1958
china ordered its sparrows killed for eating grain. hundreds of millions were. the locusts the sparrows had eaten came instead. the famine that followed killed tens of millions of people, of many causes, this among them.
method historical: Shapiro 2001; Dikötter 2010.
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how this number is built
- method
- historical: Shapiro 2001; Dikötter 2010.
- range
- n/a
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- the famine had many causes; the site says so.
- dispute
- dispute LGR-100 · corrections are credited
- data
- channels.json (sign-in) · full entry · CC BY 4.0