In 2022 world population estimates reached 8 billion; that is 8 thousand million.
133,974,696. Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2022). World Population Prospects 2022, Online Edition.
About 385,000 babies are born each day according to the UN. That adds up to more than 140 million a year.
Approximately 134.28 million births will occur across the globe in 2023, according to the UN's medium variant of the population projections, as displayed by Our World in Data.
A multiple pregnancy is a pregnancy where you're carrying more than one baby at a time. If you're carrying two babies, they are called twins. Three babies that are carried during one pregnancy are called triplets. You can also carry more than three babies at one time (high-order multiples).
Octuplets are a set of eight offspring born at one birth. An individual that is part of such a set is called an octuplet.
February 3rd is the only day where no one in history has ever been born. Despite much scientific study, there is no explanation for this phenomena. Historically it has been referred to as “the empty day” or “nobody's birthday”.
The most common birthday is Sept. 9. In second and third place are Sept. 19 and 12. In fact, the entire top 10 list is made of September birthdays between Sept. 9 and 20. Count backward and you're just in time for the holidays, since pregnancy is an average of 40 weeks from last menstruation.
Around 140 million babies are born every year in the world. That's more than four births every second of every day. More than half of all births take place in Asia with 25 million births in India and 16 million births in China alone every year.
Population change rates in 2023
982 live births average per day (40.90 in an hour) 488 deaths average per day (20.32 in an hour)
First, which month has the least birthdays? The data comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Social Security Administration. The rarest month to be born in is February, making Aquarius the rarest zodiac sign. February is the shortest month of the year, even with a leap year.
According to research, a woman can have somewhere around 15 to 30 babies in her lifetime.
The Philippines Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) chose our baby as their symbolic 8 billionth baby, and brought a banner, cake and toys. We decided to name her Vinice after Vincent's nickname, Vin.
Grow your family to at least four children! According to a study out of Australia's Edith Cowan University, parents with the most life satisfaction (which means those who are the happiest) are those that have four or more children.
Valentina Vassilyeva and her husband Feodor Vassilyev are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has produced. She gave birth to a total of 69 children – sixteen pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets and four sets of quadruplets – between 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births.
December 25 (Christmas Day) is the least common birthday, while January 1 (New Year's Day) is the second least common. December 24 (Christmas Eve) also makes the list as the 3rd least common birthday while July 4 (Independence Day) is the 4th least common birthday.
Did you see the most and least common dates? If not here they are: The most common birthday in Australia is September 17th! The least common birthday (you may have guessed it is) is Christmas Day, the 25th of December.
February 29 has the lowest total number of births over the twenty year period because it only occurs once every 4 years.
It is generally accepted that no-one can recall their birth. Most people generally do not remember anything before the age of three, although some theorists (e.g. Usher and Neisser, 1993) argue that adults can remember important events - such as the birth of a sibling - when they occurred as early as the age of two.
3. Here are some of the notable people celebrating birthdays today, including Amal Clooney, Blythe Danner, Daddy Yankee, Isla Fisher, Maura Tierney, Morgan Fairchild, Nathan Lane and more.
That's the question on the heart of the biblical character Job. “Why didn't I die at birth, my first breath out of the womb my last?
You've probably heard of identical and fraternal twins, but a report released this week says there's a third kind -- sesquizygous twins or "semi-identical." Researchers say they share anywhere from 50 to 100% of their genomes.
One study estimated a woman can have around 15 pregnancies in a lifetime. And depending on how many babies she births for each pregnancy, she'd probably have around 15-30 children.
Trisomy 13 (also known as Patau syndrome) - MN Dept. of Health.