Why no baby will be put in the global spotlight this time [View All]

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World of 'contradiction' awaits 7 billionth person (AFP)

30 October 2011, 7:53 AM

<snip>“Plenty of food, but still a billion people going to bed hungry every night. Many people enjoy luxurious lifestyles, but still many people are impoverished,” he said in an interview with Time magazine. snip

An extra billion people have been added to the world’s population since just after midnight on October 12, 1999 when the United Nations named a Bosnian baby, Adnan Mevic, as the Earth’s six billionth inhabitant.

The secretary general at the time, Kofi Annan, was pictured in a Sarajevo hospital with Mevic in his arms.

The Mevic family is now struggling in poverty at their Sarajevo home, which is partly why no baby will be put in the global spotlight this time.