Are more boy babies born or girl babies?

SURVEY SEZ!

In the United State, slightly more than half of all babies born are boys!

SOURCES:

= From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2005 data):

- Total Males Born: 2,118,982.

- Total Females Born: 2,019,367.

- That's 99,615 more boys born than girls.

- About 51% of all babies born in the U.S. are boys; 49% are girls.

= From the U.S. Census Bureau :

- Males outnumber females at births; 105 male babies are born for every 100 female babies (Sex Ratio of 105).

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 eveery 31 babies who come into this world is born American.

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

= 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 dsy of the week. Sunday was the slowest day for births.

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

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

WORLDWIDE:

Of the estimated 135 million newborns that will arrive on Planet Earth in 2009, approximately 69.8 million will be boys (51.7%); 65.2 million will be girls (48.3%): that's 4.6 million more boys!

SOURCE:

= From the U.S.Census Bureau:

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

= From the CIA World Factbook:

- World Sex Ratio at Birth: 107; that's 51.7% males versus 48.3% females.

- 51.7% x 135 million = 69.8 million boys.

- 48.3% x 135 million = 65.2 million girls.

- That's 4.6 million more boy babies.

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.

DIG DEEPER :

= SEX RATIO

= BIRTH RATE

= FERTILITY RATE