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A baby girl has been declared the world’s eight-billionth person in a symbolic gesture.
Vinice Mabansag was born in the Philippines capital, Manila, at 1.29am yesterday.
She was chosen to mark the UN’s estimate that the global population has now reached 8,000,000,000.
Officials from the Filipino population commission were at the Dr Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital to welcome Vinice into the world.