3.7L babies will be born worldwide on Jan 1, 60K in India: Unicef

New York, Jan 1 : An estimated 3,71,504 babies will be born around the world on New Year’s Day, with about 60,000 babies expected to be born in India alone, UN Children’s Fund (Unicef) said on Friday.
In total, an estimated 140 million (14 crore) children will be born in 2021. Their average life expectancy is expected to be 84 years.
While Fiji in the Pacific will welcome 2021’s first baby, the US will welcome its last.
Globally, over half of the births on the first day of New Year are estimated to take place in 10 countries: India (59,995), China (35,615), Nigeria (21,439), Pakistan (14,161), Indonesia (12,336), Ethiopia (12,006), the US (10,312), Egypt (9,455), Bangladesh (9,236) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (8,640), the Unicef said.
“The children born today enter a world far different than even a year ago, and a New Year brings a new opportunity to reimagine it,” Unicef Executive Director Henrietta Fore said in a statement.
“Children born today will inherit the world we begin to build for them – today. Let us make 2021 the year we start to build a fairer, safer, healthier world for children.”