New Years Babies: More than 370,000 babies are born on New Years Day … What is their average life expectancy?

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has estimated that 371,504 babies will be born worldwide on New Year’s Day.

With the start of the new year, 2021, Fiji in the Pacific Ocean welcomed the first child born in 2021. The United States welcomed the last child. Globally, it is estimated that more than half of these newborns will be born in 10 countries: India (59,995), China (35,615), Nigeria (21,439), Pakistan (14,161), Indonesia (12,336), Ethiopia (12,006) and the United States (10,312), Egypt (9,455), Bangladesh (9,236), Democratic Republic of the Congo (8,640). In total, about 140 million children will be born in 2021. The average age is expected to be 84 years.

UNICEF Executive Director Ms Henrietta Fore said: “Babies born today enter a very different world than they did a year ago, and the New Year provides an opportunity to establish a new vision of the world. born today will inherit the world we begin to build for them today. Let’s make 2021 the year. In which we begin to build a more just, safe and healthy world for children.

2021 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of UNICEF. UNICEF and its partners will celebrate this anniversary throughout the year through events and announcements that celebrate three-quarters of a century of work to protect children from conflict, disease and exclusion, and defend their right to life, health. and the education.