Wednesday 16 November 2022 02:11 AM Baby girl born in Philippines is declared the world's eight billionth person trends now
A baby girl born in the Philippines has been declared the world's eight billionth person as United Nations confirmed that the population passed the landmark figure yesterday.
Baby Vinice Mabansag was born at the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Tondo, Manila on 15 November and was chosen to mark the milestone.
The Filipino Commission on Population and Development gave Vinice - who was welcomed into the world at 1.29am with officials standing by - the symbolic title.
A baby girl born in the Philippines has been declared the world's eight billionth person yesterday
Baby Vinice Mabansag was born at the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital in Tondo, Manila
While the UN has not officially declared her, or anyone, the 'eight-billionth person to be born', it did so for previous population milestones.
In a sign of how quickly the world's population has expanded - from 2.5 billion in 1950 to eight billion today - the newborns who represented the five, six and seven-billionth people were named in 1987, 1999 and 2011 respectively.
UN officials came up with the idea to name the landmark babies after predicting that five billion people would be surpassed on July 11 1987.
Despite demographers rejecting the idea as 'ignorant', one official told the BBC that they were determined to go ahead with it anyway.
The 'five-billionth baby' was 'christened' at a hospital in Zagreb, Croatia on the projected date.
Fast-forward to 1999 and Adnan Mevic, born in Bosnia-Herzegovina, was declared the world's six-billionth baby by none other than UN
