United Nations: Nearly 386,000 babies were born on New Year’s Day, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) has estimated, with India heading the list with 69,070.
Xinhua news agency reported that more than 90 percent of the births took place in less developed regions.
The Unicef reported that globally over half the births were estimated to have taken place in nine countries: India (69,070), China (44,760), Nigeria (20,210), Pakistan (14,910), Indonesia (13,370), the US (11,280), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (9,400), Ethiopia (9,020) and Bangladesh (8,370).
Over the past two decades, the world has seen unprecedented progress in child survival, halving the number of children worldwide who die before their fifth birthday to 5.6 million in 2016.
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