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Alternatively, and not to take away from your post, but why can I not find any information about the death toll of the Great Depression?
Not an expert, but, apparently the Great Depression, in the US at least, didn't really directly kill that many people. The US had (has?) a pretty robust agricultural industry that meant that even with so many people driven into poverty most people could still access enough food to at least stay alive.
It still probably killed people, less access to medical care, living in less sanitary housing and massive unplanned migration definitely caused some deaths but there wasn't really any huge famine like event. People just got poor as shit.