What percentage of the population died from famine in 1324/25?

• A. 5-9%
• B. 10-15%
• C. 20-25%
• D. 30-35%

Answer: (B)

The question tests how we judge the scale of death in medieval famines by looking at approximate mortality figures rather than exact numbers. For the famine in 1324/25, historians generally estimate that about 10–15% of the population died in affected areas. This reflects how severe the harvest failures were—widespread hunger, malnutrition, and vulnerability to disease caused significant deaths—but records from that period are incomplete, so larger tolls are not what the surviving evidence supports. This middle-range figure fits the known impact of such famines in medieval Europe and ties into broader patterns of population pressure and slow growth before the plague.