well if we gained 3 billion from 1974 then we are on track to hit the 10 billion mark around 2052 and not the end of the century. Sloppy writing and editing.
Countries across world celebrate 7 billionth babies AFP | Nov 1, 2011, 05.54AM IST
MANILA, PHILIPPINES : She came into the world at two minutes before midnight, a tiny , wrinkled girl born into a struggling Manila family. On Monday, she became a symbol of the world's population reaching 7 billion people and all the worries that entails for the planet's future.
Danica May Camacho, born in a crowded public hospital , was welcomed with a chocolate cake marked "7B Philippines" and a gift certificate for free shoes. There were bursts of photographers' flashes, and speeches by local officials. The celebrations, though, reflected symbolism more than demography.
Amid the millions of births and deaths around the world each day, it is impossible to pinpoint the arrival of the globe's 7 billionth occupant . But the UN chose Monday to mark the day with a string of festivities worldwide , and a series of symbolic 7-billionth babies being born.
Countries around the world marked the demographic milestone in a variety of ways. Russian authorities showered gifts on newborns, while Papua New Guinea handed out special "goody bags" for new mothers.
In Bangladesh, authorities named another baby girl the world's seven billionth child. Weighing 2.75 kilos and named Oishee, she arrived a minute after midnight at a hospital in the capital Dhaka. "I'm so happy. I've become the father of a baby girl at a historic moment," her father Mohsin Hossain said.
In Cambodia, the honour fell to a baby girl who has yet to be named. Weighing three kilos, she was born in the southern province of Preah Sihanouk, her parents' fifth child. "I am very glad for her. She is the last child for us. I hope she will have good future . I had a dream that she would be the luckiest among my children," proud mother Pring Phal, 42, said.
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