{"id": 1009186, "name": "Population growth rate 20 years prior to famine", "unit": "%", "createdAt": "2025-01-29T15:22:47.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-04-02T17:37:20.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "1870-2021", "datasetId": 6918, "shortUnit": "%", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "population_growth", "catalogPath": "grapher/wpf/2025-01-17/famines_by_regime_gdp_population/famines#population_growth", "descriptionShort": "The average annual population growth rate in the 20 years before the famine.", "descriptionProcessing": "The population growth rate was calculated by taking the population in the year of the famine and dividing it by the population 20 years prior, subtracting 1, and multiplying by 100.\n\nFor famines that occurred in Soviet states while they were part of the USSR, we used the population growth of the USSR. Similarly, for famines in Ukraine during its time under the Russian Empire, we used the population growth of the Russian Empire.", "type": "float", "dataChecksum": "11391051784614567705", "metadataChecksum": "774003389360977041", "datasetName": "Deaths from famines by regime, GDP and population growth", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2025-01-17", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "%", "shortUnit": "%"}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Famines"]}, "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 1919}, {"id": 1915}, {"id": 1974}, {"id": 1876}, {"id": 1975}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 1897}, {"id": 1920}, {"id": 1928}, {"id": 1934}, {"id": 1937}, {"id": 1958}, {"id": 1899}, {"id": 1895}, {"id": 1998}, {"id": 1888}, {"id": 1973}, {"id": 1983}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 1941}, {"id": 1917}, {"id": 1896}, {"id": 1942}, {"id": 1981}, {"id": 1968}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 1995}, {"id": 1894}, {"id": 1870}, {"id": 1940}, {"id": 1891}, {"id": 1918}, {"id": 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"name": "China 1975", "code": null}, {"id": 371321, "name": "Congo Free State 1899-1905", "code": null}, {"id": 370669, "name": "Cuba 1895-1898", "code": null}, {"id": 370700, "name": "Democratic Republic of Congo 1998-2007", "code": null}, {"id": 370687, "name": "East Timor 1975-1979", "code": null}, {"id": 371313, "name": "Ethiopia 1888-1892", "code": null}, {"id": 370703, "name": "Ethiopia 1958", "code": null}, {"id": 370655, "name": "Ethiopia 1973", "code": null}, {"id": 370682, "name": "Ethiopia 1983-1985", "code": null}, {"id": 370640, "name": "Ethiopia 2021-2023", "code": null}, {"id": 371317, "name": "German occupied USSR  1941-1944", "code": null}, {"id": 370694, "name": "Germany 1917-1919", "code": null}, {"id": 371324, "name": "Greece 1941-1944", "code": null}, {"id": 370663, "name": "India 1876-1878", "code": null}, {"id": 370685, "name": "India 1888-1889", "code": null}, {"id": 370710, "name": "India 1896-1897", "code": null}, {"id": 370672, "name": "India 1899-1901", 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370707, "name": "USSR 1946-1947", "code": null}, {"id": 370691, "name": "Uganda 2003-2006", "code": null}, {"id": 371322, "name": "Ukraine 1931-1933", "code": null}, {"id": 370656, "name": "Vietnam 1944-1945", "code": null}, {"id": 370661, "name": "Yemen 2016-2021", "code": null}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 14278, "title": "Population", "description": "Our World in Data builds and maintains a long-run dataset on population by country, region, and for the world, based on various sources.\n\nYou can find more information on these sources and how our time series is constructed on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources", "producer": "Various sources", "citationFull": "The long-run data on population is based on various sources, described on this page: https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources", "attribution": "Population based on various sources (2024)", "attributionShort": "Population", "urlMain": "https://ourworldindata.org/population-sources", "dateAccessed": "2026-03-31", "datePublished": "2024-07-15", "license": {"url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}]}