Let's see what "pretty shitty" looks like in context.
"pretty shitty" in the US: The Great Depression of the 1930s with its unusually high unemployment rates might well have become a demographic disaster with rising infant mortality and non-infant death rates
and declining fertility throughout the decade. The national aggregates show, however, that the infant mortality rate stopped falling only temporarily in the mid 1930s before continuing on a
downward trend. The non-infant death rate stayed on trend through the early 1930s and then rose above trend in the late 1930sSource
"pretty shitty" in the USSR: Encyclopædia Britannica estimates that 6 to 8 million people died from hunger in the Soviet Union during [the 1932-1933 famine] Source
To elaborate a bit more, the US non-infant death rate during the Depression ranged from roughly 10 to 11 per 1000 people. Assuming that the Depression is wholly responsible for the upper rate and given the US resident population of approximately 123 million as of 1930, that's approximately 123,000 deaths per year. Multiply that by 10 years (say 1929 to 1939, somewhat arbitrary, I know) and you have a generous estimate of approximately 1,230,000 deaths for the decade. According to Wikipedia, deaths in the 1932-33 Soviet famine alone are estimated at anywhere between 3 and 8 million. (For reference the 1926 Soviet census lists total population at 131.3 million.)
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Let's see what "pretty shitty" looks like in context.
"pretty shitty" in the US: The Great Depression of the 1930s with its unusually high unemployment rates might well have become a demographic disaster with rising infant mortality and non-infant death rates and declining fertility throughout the decade. The national aggregates show, however, that the infant mortality rate stopped falling only temporarily in the mid 1930s before continuing on a downward trend. The non-infant death rate stayed on trend through the early 1930s and then rose above trend in the late 1930s Source
"pretty shitty" in the USSR: Encyclopædia Britannica estimates that 6 to 8 million people died from hunger in the Soviet Union during [the 1932-1933 famine] Source
To elaborate a bit more, the US non-infant death rate during the Depression ranged from roughly 10 to 11 per 1000 people. Assuming that the Depression is wholly responsible for the upper rate and given the US resident population of approximately 123 million as of 1930, that's approximately 123,000 deaths per year. Multiply that by 10 years (say 1929 to 1939, somewhat arbitrary, I know) and you have a generous estimate of approximately 1,230,000 deaths for the decade. According to Wikipedia, deaths in the 1932-33 Soviet famine alone are estimated at anywhere between 3 and 8 million. (For reference the 1926 Soviet census lists total population at 131.3 million.)