India sets record for highest number of babies born on 1st January

India recorded the highest number of babies born globally on New Year’s day, according to data released by the United Nations Children’s Fund . As per UNICEF, out of the estimated 392,078 babies born around the world, 67,385 were born in India on January 1. Indian babies accounted for 17 per cent of the estimated 3,92,078 babies that were born globally on New Year’s Day.

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Each January, UNICEF celebrates babies born on New Year’s Day, an auspicious day for child birth around the world. Babies born today share their birthday with global icons like, famous physicist Satyendra Nath Bose born on 1st January 1894, or well-known Bollywood actor, Vidya Balan born on 1st January 1979.  However, for millions of newborns around the world, the day of their birth is far less auspicious.