A quick look at stats

Source 5.
In order to gain understanding of the effects of the GLF, i wanted to have a look at some statistics, and this website came up http://www.digitalsurvivors.com/archives/visualizinggreatleapforward.php .
We are able to see a dip in the chart between 1959-1962, in which the starvation of millions of people went through as a result of the Great Leap Forward, we can understand that this means that Mao's aims of economic building was not met, and increasing targets were set up in short periods of time.
Also we can see a huge dip in child birth rate, in which during this period of time the peoples communes were set up and people were discouraged from the sphere of a family and a personal life. We can see a correlation between calorie intake and children death rate, in which the lower the calorie intake the higher percentage of children died.

By looking at these charts, we have proof of Mao persistently pushing his aims to high, resulting in the widespread famine and death of millions across China's rural area's. People may argue that people died under unintentional harm, and Mao was only trying to pull China out of its poverty line, people died under natural causes, i.e starvation, widespread famine, droughts...However we can relate this back to Mao, why was there a famine across China? Why where not regulated aims, and how the result of his initial aims being far from possible  claimed the lives of many innocent citizens.