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What other country faced a severe depression about the same time as america

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Just about every country in the world was affected by the Great Depression. Throw a dart at a map of the world and you’ll probably hit one.

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The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn that began in the United States in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. The Depression affected virtually every country of the world, but the timing and severity of the downturn varied substantially across countries. The Depression was particularly long and severe in the United States and Europe; it was milder in Japan and much of Latin America.

Latin America was heavily affected by the Great Depression in the 1930s following the stock market crash of 1929 on Wall Street. The economic declines of Latin American countries were due to their reliance on Britain and America for investment in the region's economies and their demand for the region's exports. The rise in fascist governments was brought upon by nationalist desires during the Great Depression, as was demonstrated by the Vargas government in Brazil. The period further saw a shift in economic and government policies in Latin America, such as in Argentina, in efforts to adjust their economies to recover from the Depression.

In the United States, the Great Depression caused steep declines in industrial production and in prices (deflation), mass unemployment, banking panics, and sharp increases in rates of poverty and homelessness. Industrial production between 1929 and 1933 fell by nearly 47 percent, gross domestic product (GDP) declined by 30 percent, and unemployment reached more than 20 percent. Because of banking panics, 20 percent of banks in existence in 1930 had failed by 1933. The timing and severity of the Great Depression varied substantially across countries. The decline in German industrial production was roughly equal to that in the United States. A number of countries in Latin America fell into depression in late 1928 and early 1929, slightly before the U.S. decline in output. While some less-developed countries experienced severe depressions, others, such as Argentina and Brazil, experienced comparatively mild downturns. Japan also experienced a mild depression, which began relatively late and ended relatively early.

This question is poorly worded, by asking what other country was affected by a global event and asking you to compare it to america (lower case, [sic]) suggests a very narrow world view.

The question should, at minimum, refer to the United States of America.

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