50 million babies born in 2000 without official identity

Thursday, June 6, 2002

UNITED NATIONS -- An estimated 50 million babies born in the year 2000 -- about 40 percent of all births -- were never legally registered and started life without an official identity or nationality, UNICEF said in a report Tuesday.

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