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Both China's Three Kingdoms period and the An Lushan rebellion saw a census population decline from about 50 million to 15 million people. Are there any conjectures or consensus on how many were actually deaths, as opposed to households/people falling off the census radar?

by /u/bitparity in /r/AskHistorians

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