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| 1958–1961 || Food || Consumption || Per capita urban pork consumption falls to only 1.7 kilos during the {{w|Freat Leap Forward}} period.<ref name="China Situation"/>
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| 1959–1961 || Nutrition || Crisis || The {{w|Great Chinese Famine}}breaks out as a direct consequence of the {{w|Great Leap Forward}} campaign. It is the largest famine in recorded human history, with a consensus at around 30 million deaths, though estimates range from 10 million to as high as 47 million.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Smil |first1=Vaclav |title=China's great famine: 40 years later |doi=10.1136/bmj.319.7225.1619 |pmid=10600969 |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/ |pmc=1127087}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=THE GREAT CHINESE FAMINE |url=https://alphahistory.com/chineserevolution/great-chinese-famine/ |website=alphahistory.com |accessdate=14 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=China's Great Famine: A mission to expose the truth |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/ajeats/2016/01/china-great-famine-mission-expose-truth-160106100552321.html |website=aljazeera.com |accessdate=14 December 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kai‐sing Kung |first1=James |last2=Yifu Lin |first2=Justin |title=The Causes of China’s Great Leap Famine, 1959–1961 |journal=Economic Development and Cultural Change |doi=10.1086/380584 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/380584?seq=1 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press}}</ref>
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| 1961 || Food || Production || The grain output was only 143,5 million tons, a figure similar to that of 1951.<ref name="and nutritional status">{{cite web |title=Food consumption and nutritional status in China |url=http://www.fao.org/3/U8050t/u8050t03.htm |website=fao.org |accessdate=11 September 2019}}</ref>
