Baby Damian was born at the Altagracia Maternity Hospital in Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic).

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New York - A tiny new man, a giant step for mankind! UN estimates that the world population crossed the eight billion mark on Tuesday.

Baby Damian from the Dominican Republic could be number 8 000 000 000. He was chosen as the first registered baby born in the Dominican Republic on November 15, 2022, symbolically to represent the country's contribution to the world population of eight billion

UN Secretary-General António Guterres spoke of a "milestone". The birth of the eight billionths human being is an occasion to "celebrate diversity and progress while considering humanity's shared responsibility for the planet," he said.

Damian is the first registered baby born in the Dominican Republic on November 15, 2022. The baby was chosen symbolically to represent the country's contribution to the world population of eight billion.

Since 1950, the number of people worldwide has more than tripled.

The UN attributes this growth to improvements in health care, nutrition, personal hygiene, and advances in medicine. However, population growth also poses enormous challenges for the poorest countries with exceptionally high birth rates.

After a peak in the early 1960s, population growth has slowed down significantly, according to the UN, and an end to the increase is therefore in sight in a few decades. While the world population grew at an annual rate of 2.1 percent between 1962 and 1965, growth in 2000 fell to less than one percent. Moreover, due to the declining birth rate, the growth rate could fall to around 0.5 percent by 2050, according to UN estimates.

And this is how it could go on: Considering the increasing life expectancy and the number of women of childbearing age, the UN predicts growth to 8.5 billion in 2030, to 9.7 billion in 2050, and a peak of around 10.4 billion around that year 2080.