THE Philippines has welcomed one of the world's symbolic ''7 billionth'' babies, after she arrived to a celebratory cheer at a packed government-run hospital.

Weighing 2.5 kilograms, Danica May Camacho was delivered just before midnight on Sunday amid an explosion of media flash bulbs in the delivery room at Manila's Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital.

''She looks so lovely,'' her mother, Camille Dalura, whispered softly as she cradled her tiny baby. ''I can't believe she is the world's 7 billionth.''

The baby is the second child for Ms Dalura and her partner, Florante Camacho, who quietly stood in a corner wearing a hospital gown as television crews and photographers crowded to get a shot of his daughter.