Millions die in poverty? Well probably because there's a lot of people in poverty and everyone dies. Whether any individual dies because of poverty is more difficult to state, but you can look at the mortality rates for people of different incomes and there will always be a gap. For those that think that only absolute poverty is important, that is wrong. Relative povery is very important. The US has one of the widest gaps between rich and poor in the developed world, and it also has one of the poorest records as regards health (and other) problems related to poverty in the developed world - including infant mortality figures. The correlation is pretty strong. Even within the US - when comparing states - the important figure linked to these problems is not the overall wealth of the state, but rather the size of the gap between rich and poor - ie the level of inequality.

Bagpuss