2023 began and it is expected, like every beginning of the year, that it will be full of beautiful moments. The protagonists of the first day of the year are the newborns, you drink who came into the world a few minutes before the beginning of 2023. The first of these little people is called Noha, who was born at 00:01 in the city of Resistencia, province of Chaco, at the Perrando Hospital.
This baby newborn He weighed 3,990 kilograms and is in good health. His mother, Cecilia Benítez, was accompanied by doctors Kesqui, Cristaldo, Lana, Varas and Estoup. For his part, in the province of Santa Cruz, city of Las Heras, Alexis was received who arrived at 01:03 hours by caesarean section and weighed 4,360 kilograms.
Also born today, in the province of Mendoza, Valentín Alejando Herrera, at the San Rafael Schestakow hospital, in perfect condition, his mother Alejandra had him by natural birth and the little one baby weighed 3,100 kilograms. In turn, in the Mar del Plata Maternal and Child Center, Tomás took all eyes when he was born 2:31 hours after the beginning of 2023. He weighed 3,300 kilograms and is the seventh child of Fatima.
The world population reached 8 billion
Among the most important events of 2022, some of great sadness, such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24 or the death of the fighter for human rights, Hebe de Bonafini; On the other hand, there are also events that bring joy to the majority, such as the discovery of grandchildren 131 and 132 by the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo or the victory of Argentina in the World Cup in Qatar 2022, which culminated in the largest concentration of people in Argentine history.
Among these events, a world milestone was the arrival of the planet’s population at 8 billion inhabitants. This population is four times larger than that of the year 1927 and it is mainly due to two factors: the increase in the life expectancy of newborns and the high levels of fertility in certain countries of the world, such as those of the sub-Saharan African region.
In the case of our continent, Latin America and the Caribbean, these represent 8.2% of the world population, which corresponds to about 662 million people. Our region went from having high population growth factors, but with high mortality levels in the 50’s, to reverting these variables up to the present.
