China's Great Leap Forward Famine

This map shows the geographic distribution of cohort size shrinkage index (CSSI), a proxy for severity of China's 1959-61 Great Leap Forward famine, at the prefecture level in China. The data source is the 1% sample from the China's 1990 Census of Population, which is available from the IPUMS project @ The Minnesota Population Center.

References:

Xu, Hongwei, Zhenmei Zhang, Lydia W. Li, and Jinyu Liu. Forthcoming (published online 07 November 2017). “Early-Life Exposure to China’s 1959-61 Famine and Midlife Cognition.” International Journal of Epidemiology. DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyx222.