On the last day of 2018, UNICEF released a prediction that China would welcome 44,940 babies into the world on New Year's Day, accounting¹ for just over 1 in 10 births worldwide on January 1.

 

2018年12月31日，联合国儿童基金会预测，元旦当天中国将降生44940个新生儿，占当天世界新生儿数量的1/10。

 

According to UNICEF's prediction, over half of the world's New Year's Day newborns were expected to arrive in eight countries: India, China, Nigeria, Pakistan, Indonesia, the United States, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Bangladesh.

 

To meet every newborn's right to survive and live with good health, UNICEF has been implementing² its "Every Child Alive" campaign, which calls for immediate³ investment to deliver affordable⁴, quality health care for every mother and every newborn. To achieve this goal, UNICEF has partnered with national governments on work to reduce the infant mortality rate.

 

"China has made enormous progress on reducing the number of mothers and children dying, by increasing access to high-quality primary health care across the country," said Dr. Douglas Noble, the UNICEF deputy representative to China. He added that "UNICEF has worked, and will continue to work, in partnership⁵ with the Government of China to ensure every birth occurs with skilled birth attendance, ending preventable newborn deaths and stillbirths and making sure no child dies from a preventable cause."

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