Eight billionth person United Nations stated that they "can't predict which exact baby will push us into the next billion". Nonetheless, the Philippines' Commission on Population and Development selected Vinice Mabansag, a baby girl born in Manila, as the symbolic eight billionth person on Earth.
The Philippines Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) chose our baby as their symbolic 8 billionth baby, and brought a banner, cake and toys. We decided to name her Vinice after Vincent's nickname, Vin.
On May 11, 2000, Aastha Arora's birth catapulted her into the record books. India's population had officially touched one billion people with the birth of the baby girl.
Where was the world's eight billionth baby born? While we can't know for sure who was the eight billionth person, the symbolic selection is that of Damian, a baby born in the Nuestra Senora de la Altagracia maternity hospital in Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.
On the Day of Seven Billion, the group Plan International symbolically marked the birth of the 7 billionth human with a ceremony in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh where a birth certificate was presented to a newly born baby girl, Nargis Kumar, in order to protest sex-selective abortion in the state.
The UN estimated that the world population reached one billion for the first time in 1804. It was another 123 years before it reached two billion in 1927, but it took only 33 years to reach three billion in 1960.
World population milestones by the billions
This is when the United Nations estimates that the world's population reached each billion milestone: one billion in 1804; two billion in 1927 (123 years later); three billion in 1960 (33 years later);
About 385,000 babies are born each day according to the UN. That adds up to more than 140 million a year. The 140 million extra babies per year join a world population projected to reach 10 billion people by 2056.
"The world welcomes Vinice Mabansag of Delpan,Tondo as the symbolic 8 billionth baby from the Philippines," said the National Capital Region division of POPCOM in a Facebook post hours after Baby Vinice was born at 1:29 in the morning.
The baby's photo were posted on Facebook by the Philippines' government page. A baby girl born in Tondo, Manila, is being considered as the symbolic eighth billion person in the world. Vinice Mabansag was born at Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital at 1:29 am (local time).
This was based on population projections by the Philippine Statistics Authority, which said that 3 babies are born every minute. That's why, during that day, 100 babies born in state hospitals all over the archipelago received the symbolic designation as “100,000,000th baby”.
Aastha Arora's birth was celebrated. The child was declared India's “one billionth citizen” barely hours after her birth at 05:05 on May 11, 2000, in Delhi's Safdarjung hospital.
On 11th May 2000, India's population officially reached 1 billion people with the birth of a baby girl. Government officials decided that a baby born at the Safdarjang hospital in Delhi would mark the milestone. Astha Arora was named as India's billionth baby.
The world's seven billionth baby has been born in a packed government-run hospital in the Philippines. Weighing 2.5kg (5.5lb), Danica May Camacho was chosen by the United Nations to be one of several children around the world who will symbolically represent the global population milestone.
Sadia Sultana Oishee, an 11-year-old from Bangladesh, who is the seventh-billionth child in the world, is aware of her fame. She was born in 2011, and according to her parents, her birth was nothing short of an event, with politicians and television crews swarming around her mother to get a look at her.
Five Billionth Baby: Matej Gasper
According to the BBC, Matej Gasper, born in July 1987 had a flashing camera on his tiny face and politicians surrounding him and his tired mother.
In 1999, a baby boy born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, was symbolically designated as the six billionth baby by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The family of baby Adnan Nevic years later told media that the honor was pretty useless. Postmedia archives; photo credit: UN Photo/Milton Grant.
The world's population has reached a new level of platano power as a baby boy, born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, has been named the eighth billion person on earth.
Adnan Mević, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 12 October 1999, was chosen by the United Nations as the symbolic 6 billionth concurrently alive person on Earth. He is the first son of Fatima Mević, and her husband Jasminko Mević.
Approximately 134.28 million births will occur across the globe in 2023, according to the UN's medium variant of the population projections, as displayed by Our World in Data.
July through October tends to be the most popular birth months in the United States. August is the overall most popular month for birthdays, which makes sense, considering a late August birthday means December conception.
According to real birth data compiled from 20 years of American births, mid-September is the most birthday-packed time of the year, with September 9th being the most popular day to be born in America, followed closely by September 19th.
October 31, 2011 • The U.N. says today symbolically marks the moment when the world's population reaches 7 billion. A little more than two centuries ago, the global population was 1 billion.
World population did not reach one billion until 1804. It took 123 years to reach 2 billion in 1927, 33 years to reach 3 billion in 1960, 14 years to reach 4 billion in 1974 and 13 years to reach 5 billion in 1987.
The United Nations Population Fund designated 12 October 1999 as the approximate day on which the world population reached six billion. It was officially designated "The Day of Six Billion". Demographers do not universally accept this date as being exact.