Who Is the World's 7 Billionth Person?

Who is the World's 7 Billionth Person? Hospitals around the world invite the press into their maternity wards to mark the day the United Nations has estimated will see the birth of the planet's seven billionth person.
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras
A pediatrician measures the head of Linda Abigail, the third child of Lourdes Suyapa Rodriguez, after she was born twenty minutes after midnight at Escuela hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, October 31, 2011.

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