As the 8 billionth child is born, who were 5th, 6th and 7th?
The world is still growing, but not as fast as when the six- and seven-billionth babies were born. …
“I realised something was unusual because doctors and nurses were gathering around but I couldn’t tell what was happening,” Fatima says. When Adnan arrived, the then UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was there to christen him the world’s six-billionth baby. “I was so tired, I don’t know how I felt,” Fatima recalls, laughing.