10 worst droughts around the world

In the history of the world, so many horrible droughts occur, causing rivers, trees to die, and people falling into tragedies.

1. Drought in Sahel 2012

Sahel drought in 2012

In 2012, nearly twenty million people in eight West African countries, including the Sahel regions, faced terrible droughts, including massive death crops, outbreaks of plague, armed conflicts among factions. sect. That caused them to fall into a terrible hunger, this disaster became one of the worst disasters on the planet in recent years.

2. Drought in Ethiopia, 1983-1985

Drought in Ethiopia, 1983-1985

The worst famine occurred in Ethiopia in modern history due to a severe drought in the region, causing more than 400,000 deaths.

3. Drought in Australia, 1982-1983

Drought in Australia, 1982-1983

1982-1983 was the worst drought in Australia in the twentieth century. This drought began in the fall of 1982, with the lack of heavy rainfall in eastern Australia and the emergence of cold frosts worsening the weather in June and July. At that time, the water upstream of the Murrumbidgee River and reservoirs throughout southeast Australia decreased to an unprecedented level.

4. Chinese drought in 1941

Chinese drought in 1941

This is the worst catastrophe completely caused by drought and lack of rain without any other factors such as conflicts, war or disease. The Chinese drought in 1941 caused millions of crop losses and food shortages, resulting in nearly three million deaths.

5. Drought in East Africa, 2011

Drought in East Africa, 2011

Between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe drought affected all of East Africa. Drought caused a serious food crisis throughout Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and threatened the lives of more than ten million people.

6. Drought in Brazil, 2015

Drought in Brazil, 2015

Brazil's 2015 drought, is a prolonged drought affecting Brazil's southeast including the urban areas of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. This drought has been described as the worst in 80 years.

7. Drought in North America, 2002

Drought in North America, 2002

The drought in 2002 was prolonged and quite serious in some areas, especially heavily affecting the western United States, the Midwest .

8. Drought in Spain, 2014

Drought in Spain, 2014

In 2014, many places in Spain suffered the most intense drought in more than a century and a half. Valencia and Alicante are two of the worst areas affected. According to the country's meteorological agency, in the past 150 years, they have never witnessed such a long and intense drought.

9. Drought in Vietnam, 1944

Drought in Vietnam, 1944

Vietnam suffered a severe drought in 1944. Drought combined with pestilent insects, floods during the harvest season and policies of rice cultivation by Japanese militarists led to famine in Vietnam in 1945. killing about 2 million people.

10. A prolonged drought in Vietnam in 2016

Prolonged drought in Vietnam in 2016

In 2016, Vietnam is suffering from an unprecedented drought in the past 100 years. The drought accompanied by this saline intrusion directly affects more than a dozen provinces in the Mekong Delta, inundated rivers, dry and cracked land is a tragedy here. It is forecasted that severe natural disasters last long, the risk of 500,000 hectares of summer-autumn rice cannot be sown, seriously affecting the lives of one million households (equivalent to 5 million people).