Nearly 1,000 children will be born on the 1st of January in Canada

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Monday, 1 January 2018 06:49

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The canadian babies will represent 0.27% of the 385 793 babies who will be born into the world on January 1, 2018, according to estimates by UNICEF and the World Data Lab.

These estimates of the number of births is based on indicators of period and mortality tables found in the report “world population Prospects 2017 of the United Nations”. With all these data, the algorithm of the World Data Lab has screened the number of birth every day, by country and by sex, as well as life expectancy.

According to these data, Christmas island, situated in one of the archipelagos of Kiribati, in the South Pacific, will host the first baby of the year 2018, and the United States, the last of the day.

More than half of the births that will take place today will be in the following nine countries: India (69 070 births), China (44 760), Nigeria (20 210), Pakistan (14 910), Indonesia (13 370), Usa (11 280), democratic Republic of the Congo (9 400), Ethiopia (9 020), Bangladesh (8 370).

Reduce the infant mortality

Among these children, some will not survive their first day of life. In 2016, it is estimated that about 2600 babies are born dead every day in the 24 hours following their birth.

“The resolution of the UNICEF for this new year is to offer each child more than one hour, one day, more than a month of life, that is, in a word, the life and non-survival,” said David Morley, president of UNICEF Canada, in a press release. “We call on all governments and our partners to join our action which aims to save the lives of millions of children.”

The next month, the organization will launch a global campaign to require and provide health solutions that are affordable and of quality for each mother and each newborn. These solutions include the continuous supply of water and electricity, health facilities, skilled attendance at birth, the disinfection of the umbilical cord, and breastfeeding within the first hour following birth, and the practice of skin-to-skin contact between the mother and the child.