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UNITED NATIONS, Jan.1 (Xinhua) – An estimated 371,504 babies will be born worldwide on New Year’s Day, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.
As the calendar approaches 2021, UNICEF once again celebrates the new lives that will be brought to the world on January 1.
Fiji in the Pacific will welcome the first baby of 2021. The United States will welcome its last. Globally, it is estimated that more than half of these births take place in 10 countries: India (59,995), China (35,615), Nigeria (21,439), Pakistan (14,161), Indonesia (12,336), Ethiopia (12,006), United States (10,312), Egypt (9,455), Bangladesh (9,236) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (8,640).
In total, an estimated 140 million children will be born in 2021. Their average life expectancy is expected to be 84 years.
“Children born today enter a very different world than a year ago, and a new year provides a new opportunity to reinvent it,” said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore. “Children born today will inherit the world we begin to build for them today. Let us make 2021 the year we begin to build a more just, safer and healthier world for children.” Final product
