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In 2013, child poverty reached record high levels, with 16.7 million children living in food insecure households, about 35% more than 2007 levels. [269] As of 2015, 44 percent of children in the United States live with low-income families. [270] In 2016, 12.7% of the U.S. population lived in poverty, down from 13.5% in 2015.
1910–45 – Cadmium from mining waste contaminated rice irrigation water in Japan. The illness, known as itai-itai disease, affected more than 20% of women aged over 50 years [6] 1920 – In South Africa, 80 people suffered poisoning from eating bread contaminated with naturally occurring pyrrolizidine alkaloids. [7]
The south of the country in particular is characterised by very strong urbanisation and a relatively large number of cities. According to an estimate from 2015, [133] there are 20 cities in Nigeria with more than 500,000 inhabitants, including ten cities with a population of one million.