Mortality from the 1944-1945 famine in Java, Indonesia

Pierre van der Eng

No 1, CEH Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic History, Research School of Economics, Australian National University

Abstract: This paper examines the human toll of the 1944-1945 famine in Java, Indonesia’s main island. It estimates birth and death rates for the Indonesian population in Java during 1941-1951. Using the net population loss method, the paper approximates a net loss of 3.4 million people during the 1942-1945 Japanese occupation period, including 1.9 million excess deaths; 0.7 million during 1944 and 1.2 million during 1945. The residual 1.5 million were missing births in 1944 and 1945, associated with the malnutrition of women of childbearing ages and the physical separation of wives from husbands recruited by Japanese authorities for forced labour.

Keywords: famine; malnutrition; Java; Indonesia; Japanese occupation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-01
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