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Worldwide, 371,504 babies are born on the first day of the year, according to the UN children’s agency UNICEF. That’s slightly more than 20,000 less than on January 1, 2020.
Ten countries will account for half of all births: most children are born in India, China, Nigeria and Pakistan. And there is a huge difference in the lives that newborns can expect.
The 369 children expected to be born in the Central African Republic have only a life expectancy of 61.4 years. The 234 in Switzerland can live more than half a century longer, and will have an average age of 116.4 years, according to Unicef calculations.
The 308 children born in Sweden this year are also expected to live long, averaging 110.2 years.
Before the end of the year, another 140 million children will have been born in the world, with an expected life expectancy of 84 years, according to estimates.
“Children born today are entering a world that is very different from a year ago, and a new year represents a new opportunity to imagine that,” UNICEF Director Henrietta Fore said in a press release.
Gustav Sjöholm / TT
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