The Day of Six Billion

The Day of Six Billion

The United Nations Population Fund designated October 12, 1999 as the approximate day on which world population reached six billion. It was officially designated "The Day of Six Billion".

This was about twelve years after the world population reached five billion, in 1987. The child that has been proclaimed by the United Nations Population Fund and welcomed by the U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as the six billionth baby, Adnan Nevic, was born on the designated day two minutes after midnight to Fatima and her husband Jasminko Nevic in Sarajevo, Bosnia.

ee also

*World population
*United Nations Population Fund


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