Countries around the world have marked the world’s population reaching 7 billion with ceremonies for newborn infants.<\/p>\n
The United Nations says that by its best estimates, the world population will reach 7 billion sometime and somwhere on Oct. 31, but it has said it will not designate a single newborn as the seventh billion baby, RFE\/RL<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n Countries around the world have scheduled ceremonies to mark the milestone, with a series of symbolic seventh-billion babies being born.<\/p>\n Armenia’s symbolic 7-billionth-baby-in-the-world was born this morning in a maternity ward in Artik, a city in the country’s northwestern province (marz) of Shirak.<\/p>\n Dr. Simon Manukyan welcomed little baby Vahram Voskanyan into the world.<\/p>\n Doctos say the baby, 49 cm tall and weighing 2.5 kg, is healthy.<\/p>\n