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[Alex]

I was made curious. And when I get curious I do pointless research. And having done that I share it with people who don't care. India has a population of 1.1 billion. They have an annual birth rate of 23 births per 1000 people. Resulting in 25.3 million babies born each year.

Here's the number for the top 20 countries. A baby born to a top 20 country has almost a 1/3 chance of being born in India. I suspect China also has a lot of interesting defects but the information infrastructure probably isn't as good at getting the word out.

India - 25.3 million babies born
China - 17.0 million
Nigeria - 5.9 million
Pakistan - 4.4 million
Indonesia - 4.3 million
United States - 4.2 million
Bangladesh - 3.9 million
Brazil - 3.6 million
Ethiopia - 2.9 million
Philippines - 2.3 million
Mexico - 2.1 million
Egypt - 1.8 million
Vietnam - 1.6 million
Russia - 1.5 million
Iran - 1.4 million
Turkey - 1.3 million
Japan - 1.1 million
Thailand - .92 million
France - .78 million
Germany - .67 million