Every seven seconds a child is born in the world!
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The record number of children born to one woman was 69. According to reports made in 1782, between 1725 and 1765, the wife of the Russian peasant Fedor Vasiliev gave birth 27 times, having produced 16 times twins, 7 times triplets and 4 times 4 twins. Of these, only 2 children died in infancy. In another part of the world in South America, the most prolific mother is Leontina Albina (or Alvina) from San Antonio, Chile, who is 1943-81. gave birth to 55 children. As a result of the first 5 pregnancies, she had triplets, exclusively male.
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The most elderly woman in attendance, Rosanna Dalla Corta, from Viterbo, Italy, on July 18, 1994, at the age of 63, she gave birth to a boy; before that she underwent a course of treatment for infertility.
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The longest intervals between births in multiple pregnancies.
Peggy Lynn from Huntington, NY Pennsylvania, USA, gave birth to the girl Hannu on November 11, 1995, and the second of the twins, Eric - only in 84 days (February 2, 1996).
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The largest baby in the world was born in Italy in 1955. Its weight was 10 kilograms of 200 grams. The record of the XXI century was the baby, born in the Altai. Her weight at birth was 7 kilograms 750 grams with a growth of an average for a newborn - 56 centimeters. The girl was born on September 17, 2007, in the town of Aleysk.
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The smallest child in the world is a boy from Germany who was born prematurely at the 25th week of pregnancy and at birth weighed about 270 grams, his height reached 27 centimeters. The preterm baby who survived was Amalie Taylor, she was born at the 22nd week of pregnancy in October 2006 in Miami, with a weight of 284 grams and a height of 24 cm.
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The lowest birth rate (for the period 2005-2010) was registered in Germany - 8 children per 1000 inhabitants per year. According to the statistics of the Federal Republic of Germany, every fifth German (analyzed age under 45) never had children, and among them, 28% have a higher education. A real paradox: German families are one of the strongest in the world, but a third of couples do not want to have children. The main reasons are a desire to live for themselves and employment. If you take a separate city, then stands out Chemnitz (the former Karl-Marx-Stadt), where the birth rate is still almost a half times lower. The second, third and fourth places in the list of countries with the lowest birth rate were divided into three developed Asian countries - Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore.
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The highest birth rate is recorded in Nigeria, where there are 51 newborns per 1000 inhabitants.
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The largest family in the world lives in India. Zion Khan - the head of the family is surrounded by 39 wives, 94 children, 33 grandchildren - only 167 people. According to journalistic calculations, this family eats about 200 kilograms of rice a day, slightly more than 130 kilograms of potatoes, about 30 hens.
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The largest family in Russia lives in the Orenburg region, this family is brought up 64 children, their parents are the abbot of the temple and his wife. Twenty-four children have been adopted in this family, and the rest are under guardianship. Children were taken from shelters and orphanages in many cities, most of the children were with various serious illnesses.
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Most of all children in the world have Moroccan sultan Ismail. He as a real father brings up 548 sons and 340 daughters. In his numerous harem, an average child was born every 20 days.
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The youngest mother on the planet was 5-year-old Lina Medina from Peru. In 1939, she gave birth to a baby with Caesarean section. This is the earliest recorded case of childbirth in the history of modern medical observations.
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The youngest grandmother in the world was Romanian Rifka Stanescu in her 23 years. At the age of 11, the girl ran away from home with her chosen one, and soon they had a daughter. A year later a son appeared. The daughter of Rifka, becoming an adult, repeated the fate of her mother - she decided to get married before she finished school (at the age of 11). The girl moved to live with her chosen one, and six months later she gave birth to a son.
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The most unusual women's names according to the registry offices of Russia are the names: Gryazin, Banana, Dust, Bath, Afighenia, Belka, Trishka, Feodosiya. The most unusual names for boys are Edgard, Darius, Blutuz, Yarobog, Eneken, Zhyromir, Luchezar.
According to RIA Novosti with reference to the capital Office of the Registry Office last year, filled the ranks of children with unusual names of newborns Angel Maria, Princess Angelina, Casper the Unappreciative, in addition, now in the capital live Yagoda, North, Wind, Privatization, Cosmos, Marticia, Volpurgia, Knox.
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The smartest child of the planet, recognized by the Guinness Book of Records, was 11-year-old Mahmud Vaill Mahmud (Mahmud Vail). The young Egyptian has the highest IQ among his peers, his IQ is 155 units. Mahmoud Vail Mahmud was born on January 1, 1999, in one of the densely populated districts of Cairo in a middle-income family, both his parents are doctors. An ingenious boy is the third child in the family, he has two older sisters. Due to its phenomenal abilities, the superintelligent child can produce complex arithmetic calculations directly in the mind. He easily multiplies and divides the nine-digit figures with computer speed, and does it with pleasure and without any effort.
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In Korea, those 9 months that the baby is in the womb of the mother, are brought into the age. Therefore, Korean children are always one year older than their peers from other countries, although there is no physical difference in age.
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Most of all twins in the world are born in Nigeria: one case for every 11 births. Less often, twins appear in Japan: one case for 250 births.
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In most languages of the world, the words "mom" and "dad" have a similar sound. This is not due to the common origin of all languages, but to the fact that these words are the first sounds similar to the words pronounced by babbling children.
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In Japan, with respect to children, the word "bad" and "bad" is not used at all.