Pyongyang, November 22 (KCNA) -- Census data suggest at least one in five U.S. children lived in poverty in 2010, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday.

More than 15 million children -- 21.6 percent of all U.S. children 17 and younger -- lived in homes with incomes below the poverty threshold last year, the highest figure since the Census Bureau started tracking child poverty numbers in 2001.