How many babies are born every year?

SURVEY SEZ!

A record 4.3 million babies were born in the United States in 2007!

SOURCE:

= From the National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics Report, March 18, 2009:

- There were 4,317,119 recorded live births in the United States in 2007 (preliminary data), a 1% increase over 2006 and the highest number ever registered for the United States.

INTERESTING FACTS:

= From the CIA World Factbook:

- U.S. Birth Rate: 14.18 births per 1,000 population (2008 est.).

- U.S. Fertility Rate: 2.05 children born per woman (2009 est.).

- U.S. Infant Mortality Rate: 6.26 deaths per 1,000 live births.

= From the U.S. Census Bureau:

- U.S. births account for a mere 3% of the all births worldwide; only one out of every 31 babies who come into this world is born American.

- A baby is born in the United States every 8 seconds.

- An estimated 4,245,672 babies will be born in the U.S. in 2009.

= From the National Center for Health Statistics:

- One in ten Ameircan babies was born to a teen-age mother in 2007.

- 1.7 million American babies were born to unwed mothers in 2007; that's nearly 40% of all live births, or 2 out of every 5.

= From babycenter.com (2005 data):

- More babies were born on Tuesday than any other day of the week. Sunday was the slowest day for births.

- More babies arrived during the late summer and early fall months of July, August and September. August had the most births; February had the fewest.

- The average birth weight was 7 pounds, 5 ounces.

WORLDWIDE:

An estimated 135 million newborns will arrive on Planet Earth in 2009!

SOURCE:

= From the U.S. Census Bureau, International Data Base:

- World Live Births for 2009 are estimated at 135,474,672.

INTERESTING FACTS:

= From the CIA World Factbook:

- World Birth Rate: 20.18 births per 1,000 population.

- World Fertility Rate: 2.61 children born per woman.

- World Infant Mortality Rate: 42.09 deaths per 1,000 live births.