UNICEF has reported that Indian babies born on New Year’s Day were estimated to be 17 per cent of the estimated 392, 078 babies born around the world.

An estimated 67, 385 babies, the highest in the world, were born in India on first day of 2020. China ranked second to India (46, 299) followed by Nigeria (26, 039), Pakistan (16,787), Indonesia (13,020) and the United States of America (10, 452).

The UNICEF also said that Fiji in the Pacific will most likely deliver 2020’s first baby, the United States, its last. Each January, UNICEF, which is the United Nations Agency responsible for providing humanitarian and development aid to children around the world, celebrates babies born on New Year’s Day, an auspicious day for child birth around the world.

Several babies were born in the National Capital Region as well. A doctor said that many parents plan their baby’s delivery on this day through cesarean section considering it auspicious to welcome their baby in a new year.

Source: ET Healthworld