Seven billionth babies: newborns around the world – in pictures

Newborn Pakistani babies receive phototherapy treatment for neonatal jaundice in Rawalpindi Photograph: Nathalie Bardou/AP

Eiko Niizaka holds the hand of her newborn baby boy, Shota, at a hospital in Iwanuma, Japan, in an area devastated by the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March Photograph: Yomiuri/Reuters

Danica Camacho, who was chosen as the symbolic 7 billionth baby, is weighed at the Fabella maternity hospital in the Philippine capital, Manila Photograph: Erik de Castro/AFP/Getty Images

A baby girl and her mother at Castle hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP

Baby Cin cries soon after being born at Avista Adventist hospital in Louisville, Colorado, US Photograph: Rick Wilking/Reuters

A mother holds her newborn baby at a maternity hospital in Tbilisi, Georgia Photograph: David Mdzinarishvili/Reuters

A newborn baby sleeps in the arms of her mother at a community health centre near Lucknow, India Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

Lourdes Suyapa Rodriguez, 35, grimaces next to her newborn baby girl, Linda Abigail, who was born at the Escuela hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras Photograph: Edgard Garrido/Reuters

George Doikas, who was born at a state maternity hopital in Athens, Greece Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images

A doctor attends to a baby boy at a hospital in Zouping, China Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

A newborn baby is weighed after it was born at a hospital in Hefei, China Photograph: Jianan Yu/Reuters

Isaac Davies, who was born at the James Cook hospital in Middlesbrough Photograph: Nigel Roddis/Reuters

An Indian mother reacts on seeing her baby boy moments after his birth at a hospital in Guahati, India Photograph: Anupam Nath/AP

Vasnatha Suresh holds her newborn baby boy at the Gandhi hospital in Hyderabad, India Photograph: Noah Seelam/AFP/Getty Images