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Three Years of Natural Disasters

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The Three Years of Natural Disasters (三年自然灾害/三年自然災害) refers to the period in the People's Republic of China between 1959 and 1961. It was the last famine China had, after thousands of years of famines, including one during the 1940s, prior to Chinese Communist Party|Communist rule. Despite the name, it is generally openly acknowledged by most everyone, including people within the Communist Party of China, that the root of the disaster was poor economic planning rather than natural causes, and hence "Three Years of Economic Difficulty" and "Period of Three Difficult Years" are also used by China officials to describe this period.
Background

During the Great Leap Forward, farming was collectivization|collectivized and organized into People's commune|communes. In addition, a large portion of farmers (estimated 90 million) were working in urban centers on steel production. The population of mainland China was about 672,070,000 at 1959.
Outcome

Although official population data of the whole nation is collected at 1953 for election registration and is recollected at 1964, it has famous inaccuracy as other Chinese official numbers does.

According to China Statistical Yearbook (1984), corp production decreased from 2,000,000 tons (1958) to 1,435,000 tons (1960). Due to lack of food and marriage, the population was about 658,590,000 at 1961, about 13,480,000 less than the population of 1959. Birth rate decreased from 2.922%(1958) to 2.086%(1960) and death rate increased from 1.198(1958) to 2.543(1960), while the average numbers of 1962-1965 are about 4% and 1%.

The official estimated number in this period is about 15 million dead of starvation of total 40 million death. Many analysts estimated the number of of "abnormal death" ranged from 10 millon to 100 million. Some western analysts such as Patricia Buckley Ebrey estimate that about 20-40 million people had died of starvation caused by bad government policy and natural disasters. J. Banister estimates this number is about 23 million.
Politics


See also: Great Leap Forward (1958-1960)

Category:Famines
Category:History of China
Category:1959
Category:1960
Category:1961
Reference

China Statistical Yearbook (1984), edited by State Statistical Bureau. China Statistical Publishing House, 1984.Page 83,141,190

China Statistical Yearbook (1991), edited by State Statistical Bureau. China Statistical Publishing House, 1991.

China Population Statistical Yearbook(1985), edited by State Statistical Bureau. China Statistical Bureau Publishing House, 1985.

J. Banister. "Analysis of recent data on the population of China", Population and Development, Vol.10, No.2, 1984
zh-cn:三年自然灾害
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