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Detailed explanation-1: -Nearly 400, 000 babies were born around the world on New Year’s Day with India recording the highest number of these births worldwide at 67, 385, the UN children’s agency said.

Detailed explanation-2: -More than 371, 500 babies were born worldwide on New Year’s Day and India is estimated to have recorded the highest number of births at around 60, 000, according to the UN’s children’s agency.

Detailed explanation-3: -Countries with the highest birth rate 2021 Niger had the highest birth rate in the world in 2021, with a birth rate of 47.08. Angola, Benin and Mali followed with more than 41 children born in each of the countries per 1, 000 population in that year.

Detailed explanation-4: -Indonesia - 13, 256. The United States of America - 11, 086. The Democratic Republic of Congo - 10, 053.

Detailed explanation-5: -The nine babies were born on May 4, 2021. Remember the African woman who set a Guinness World Record last year when she gave birth to nine babies at once? A woman named Halima Cissé, from Mali, gave birth to nine babies, five girls and four boys, in Morrocco’s port city of Casablanca.