The famine started 180 years ago, and the population fell by as much in the 80 years after the famine than it did in the years of and shortly after the famine. Going from over 8m before the famine to around 6.5m following it. But up to the mid-1920s the population continued to drop, right down to less than 4.3m. The famine killed roughly a million, the main population drop came from emigration that continued for almost a century (from the whole island, it wasn't until after WWII that population numbers began to rise in the republic).
The famine itself wasn't the reason the population numbers fell so low. It's because the country was completely fucked after it, and created a vicious circle, where things were so bad, people kept leaving, which made things worse, so more people left. That's not comparable to the current situation in Western countries. Our populations are dropping because of problems that could be fixed within a decade or two if the will existed.
being alive in the west in the 20/21st century has rendered me wholly unable to understand how country wide famines even happen, let me justify this real fast before you call me stupid ( I am but hear me out)
The population of the Congo is over 110 million people
Its also fuckoff huge
Here is an image of their capitol city
And here is there largest floating scrapyard, errr, scratch that my bad its their largest port
According to the UN (I dont trust em either but you know anyone else tracking this data?) these people just EXIST in level 4 of 5 famine status just ALL THE TIME just steady chilling
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My point being, how the hell was the great potato fucking so catastrophic to the population of Ireland? Like on paper it just dosent make sense, way less people to feed, far more fertile ground to grow things, more livestock, and allegedly better genes or just "superior white problem solving" or whatever the people like nick Fuentes believe.
BTW before you come in and say "ohh well the british clearly exacerbated it by the hostilities going on, the damn congo is on part 2 of a nearly 3 decade long war/genocide depending on who you ask that has killed 6 MILLION PEOPLE!
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So all while undergoing the "Sub Saharan Shoah" (Patent pending, im very proud of that line) and being level 4 famine there is still TWICE the population of France just straight chilling (by that I mean fighting everyday for basic necessity)
Also wanna head of anyone that thinks im saying all this to make some easy jokes at an African country for being underdevloped you couldent be more wrong, honestly the more ive read about it the more im blown away by the damn Congolese and they have even earned a bit of grudging respect from me, life isent easy ANYWHERE and these fuckers have it on hard mode but every video I clicked on to listen to the actual people talk they almost UNIVERSALLY start or end their statements with a praise to God, not allah or the "gods" the freaking big Guy! they are doing and saying this after like jumping into a shit colored river with rapids that would make a navy seal think twice to wrestle out a fish with freaking teeth just so he can EAT and first thing out of his mouth when he hits the boat is "all thanks to god who provides and the blessed river he has given us" like wtf? I gave 5$ to a guy at the bus stop one time and he spit on my shoes as a thank you.
Im kinda getting the idea that Africa, or atleast parts of it may have just gotten a really rotten round of "wrong place wrong time" during the industrial revolution cause on paper the shit that brought European nations to their fucking knees is just tuesday for them.
