How many babies are born each day?
Roughly 132 million babies are born each year, which is about 360,000 a day, 15,000 an hour or four per second. Deaths run at about 62 million a year, or 170,000 a day, so world population grows by roughly 190,000 people daily. Annual births peaked around 2012 at about 141 million and have been declining since — global population is still growing mainly because people are living longer, not because more are being born.
How the figure is arrived at
Civil registration of births where it works, and demographic modelling where it does not — roughly a quarter of the world's births are still not officially registered. The UN reconciles registration data with household survey results and census age structures, which is why national birth figures sometimes get revised years later.
How confident it is
- Low estimate
- 350,000
- High estimate
- 375,000
- Spread
- 1.1× between the bounds
Other every day counts
- How many people die each day? about 170,000 — roughly two every second
- How many Google searches are made every day? roughly 8.5 billion — about 100,000 a second
- How many emails are sent every day? about 360 billion
- How many times does your heart beat in a lifetime? about 2.5 billion
- How many cups of coffee are drunk every day? roughly 2.5 billion
- How many photos are taken every day? roughly 5 billion a day — about 2 trillion a year
- How many steps do you take in a lifetime? roughly 150 million — about 110,000 km
- How many hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute? 500 hours a minute — about 720,000 hours a day
- How many pizzas are sold every day? somewhere between 3 and 8 million a day in the United States
- How many words do we speak a day? about 16,000
- How many breaths do you take in a lifetime? about 600 million
- How many messages are sent every day? about 100 billion on WhatsApp alone
Common questions
- How many babies are born each day?
- about 360,000 — roughly four every second
- How is that estimated?
- Civil registration of births where it works, and demographic modelling where it does not — roughly a quarter of the world's births are still not officially registered. The UN reconciles registration data with household survey results and census age structures, which is why national birth figures sometimes get revised years later.
Related pages
- How many people die each day? about 170,000 — roughly two every second
- How many Google searches are made every day? roughly 8.5 billion — about 100,000 a second
- How many emails are sent every day? about 360 billion
- How many times does your heart beat in a lifetime? about 2.5 billion
- How many cups of coffee are drunk every day? roughly 2.5 billion
- How many photos are taken every day? roughly 5 billion a day — about 2 trillion a year
- How many steps do you take in a lifetime? roughly 150 million — about 110,000 km
- How many hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute? 500 hours a minute — about 720,000 hours a day
- How many people are there in the world? Living things and the natural world
- How many stars are there in the universe? Space and the universe
- How many countries are there in the world? Things people built
- How many bones are in the human body? The human body
- How many grains of sand are there on Earth? Living things and the natural world
- How many ants are there in the world? Living things and the natural world
Sources
- World Population Prospects — United Nations