^数据不包括奥里萨邦。自饥荒发生以来,对饿死人数的估计差别很大。详见Maharatna Arup的著作《The Demography of Famines: an Indian Historical Perspective》[1],特别是215页的表5.1。210-300万的数据来自Devereux Stephen的报告《Famine in the twentieth century》[2],较低的数据出自Dyson Tim和Maharatna Arup发表在《The Indian Economic & Social History Review》杂志题为《Excess mortality during the Great Bengal Famine: A Re-evaluation》的文章[3]:281-297。较高的数据出自被广泛引用的Amartya Sen的300万的说法[2]。
CormacÓGráda说:“孟加拉的死亡人估计从80万到380万不等,现在的学术共识是210万左右[4]。
Paul R. Greenough认为饿死人数在350-380万[5]:299-309。
灾后的估计数据有:由印度政府1944年指派Sir John Woodhead主持的饥荒调查委员会,1945年调查结果估计,孟加拉6030万人口中约有150万人死于饥荒。1944年加尔各答大学的人类学家KP Chattopadhyay估计在1943年有350万人死于饥荒,这个数据在当时被广泛接受,但是后来许多学者认为估计过高[5]:300-301[3]:281。
^ 2.02.1Devereux, Stephen. Famine in the twentieth century(PDF) (技术报告). IDS Working Paper 105. Brighton: Institute of Development Studies. 2000 [2020-09-19]. (原始内容存档(PDF)于2017-05-16).
^ 3.03.1Dyson, Tim; Maharatna, Arup. Excess mortality during the Great Bengal Famine: A Re-evaluation. The Indian Economic & Social History Review. September 1991, 28 (3). doi:10.1177/001946469102800303.
Bhatia, B.M. (1985) Famines in India: A study in Some Aspects of the Economic History of India with Special Reference to Food Problem, Delhi: Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
Padmanabhan, S.Y. The Great Bengal Famine. Annual Review of Phytopathology, 11:11-24, 1973
Sen, A. Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, 1981, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198284632
Tauger, M. 2003. Entitlement, Shortage and the 1943 Bengal Famine: Another Look. The Journal of Peasant Studies 31:45 - 72