UNICEF Expects World to Receive 140 Mln Babies in 2021

UNICEF expected that 140 million babies will be born in 2021. Their average life expectancy is expected to be 84 years.

According to UNICEF, an estimated 371,504 babies were born around the world on New Year’s Day, according to UNICEF.

UNICEF is celebrating the new lives being brought into the world on January 1. Fiji in the Pacific welcomed 2021’s first baby. Globally, over half of these births are estimated to take place in 10 countries: India (59,995), China (35,615), Nigeria (21,439), Pakistan (14,161), Indonesia (12,336), Ethiopia (12,006), the United States (10,312), Egypt (9,455), Bangladesh (9,236) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (8,640).

On January 1st, UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said: “The children born today enter a world far different than even a year ago, and a New Year brings a new opportunity to reimagine it.” “Children born today will inherit the world we begin to build for them—today. Let us make 2021 the year we start to build a fairer, safer, healthier world for children.”

2021 will also mark the 75th anniversary of UNICEF. Over the course of the year, UNICEF and its partners will be commemorating the anniversary with events and announcements celebrating three-quarters of a century of protecting children from conflict, disease, and exclusion and championing their r