NEW YORK, January 1, 2021 – An estimated 392,078 babies will be born worldwide on New Year’s Day, according to UNICEF.
“The beginning of a new year and a new decade is an opportunity to reflect on our hopes and aspirations not only for our future, but for the future of those who will come after us,” said Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director. . “As the calendar turns every January, we are reminded of all the possibility and potential that each child can embark on the journey of their life, if only given that opportunity.”
Fiji in the Pacific is likely to deliver the first baby of 2021. The United States, its last. Globally, it is estimated that more than half of these births will take place in eight countries:
- India – 67,385
- China – 46,299
- Nigeria: 26,039
- Pakistan: 16,787
- Indonesia: 13,020
- United States of America: 10,452
- Democratic Republic of the Congo – 10,247
- Ethiopia: 8,493
Every January, UNICEF celebrates babies born on New Year’s Day, a day conducive to the birth of children around the world.
However, for millions of newborns around the world, the day of their birth is much less auspicious.
In 2018, 2.5 million newborns died in the first month of life; about a third of them on the first day of life. Among these children, most died of preventable causes such as premature birth, complications during childbirth, and infections such as sepsis. In addition, more than 2.5 million dead babies are born each year.
Over the past three decades, the world has experienced remarkable progress in the survival of children, reducing by more than half the number of children worldwide who die before their fifth birthday. But there has been slower progress for newborns. Babies who died in the first month accounted for 47% of deaths in children under five in 2018, compared to 40% in 1990.
UNICEF’s Every Child Alive campaign calls for immediate investment in properly trained health workers, equipped with the right medications to ensure that all mothers and newborns are cared for by a safe pair of hands to prevent and treat complications during pregnancy. ‘pregnancy, childbirth and childbirth.
“Too many mothers and newborns are not cared for by a trained and equipped midwife or nurse, and the results are devastating,” Fore said. “We can make sure millions of babies survive their first day and live this decade and beyond if each of them is born in a safe pair of hands.”
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Click here for complete and complete birth estimates in 190 countries.
For the data, UNICEF worked with the World Data Lab. Estimates of the number of babies born on 1 January 2021 are based on the latest review of the United Nations world population outlook (2020). Based on these data sets, the World Data Lab (WDL) algorithm projects estimates of the number of births per day per country.
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