I gave you a range...as is reported. No one really knows how many died between 1929 and 1932, but many did. How can you not consider that the unemployment rate rose to 25 % in a time where there were no social programs and not admit people died...both of malnutrition, exposure (hard to keep warm in Hoovervilles) and treatable illness (no money for doctors. It’s common sense. I have read statistics that range from seven million to 26 million...I imply nothing...people did die. We may never know the exact figure.
How many died during the depression?
wiki.answers.com — 7 million Industrial (city), 5 million rural, particularly farmers. When the unemployment rate rose to over 19%, within a year it’s estimated a combined total of between 12 and 15 million Americans died from starvation.
mistype...should be 16 million not 26 million.
Yes we do. It was roughly 1.3 million a year ---- 5.2 million in TOTAL! However, 7-15 million Americans DID NOT die from 1929-1932 because of the Great Depresssion or from Hoover's policies. Stop spreading falsehoods!
Don't count on some internet website to tell you the truth. I suggest you take a class in statistics, along with one in history and one in commonsense. If you had taken the time to look at the link I supplied, cdc.gov, you would have learned something. The level of deaths in America during the Great Depression was consistent with average growth of the US population. There were no significant spikes. There was a total of 15 million deaths overall in the US during the period 1929-1939. That covers almost the entire Great Depression.
When you compare that to the period of the 1918 flu pandemic, you see a siginificant spike in the level of deaths in the US population. The 1918 flu pandemic killed millions world wide and about 500,000 in the US alone.
Facts are our friends, but only if used correctly.
Wikipedia, now there's a great source for factual data (that's sarcasm, btw). Madam, I don't know how you can continue to post such total FALSEHOODS and 100% pure unadulterated Democrat/Leftist propaganda. It's so outrageous and ludicrous that it doesn't pass the smell test. 15 million didn't starve to death under Hoover. That is more the reality in Soviet Russia where those in rural areas were DELIBERATELY starved to death by Stalin. How can you, as a former teacher, continue to willfully propagate such debunked lies ? But you remind me of how FDR and the Democrats were able to win and hold onto power for years on end. They repeat lies such as what you've stated and report them as facts. You hear a lie enough times and it becomes truth. The Democrat party was constructed on a mountain of lies and criminality, by deceiving the people and making slaves of the population and exploiting their ignorance of truth.