How Many Babies are Born every minute in US?

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Doing a little math, and using basic numbers provided by the Department of Health and Human Services the rate, based on 2005 live births is about 7.9 per minute.

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The US birth rate is about 1 live birth every 8 seconds. This equals 10,800 births per day or 7.5 a minute.

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Another way to calculate (data came from nationmaster.com):

Current U.S. Birth Rate = 14.18 live births per 1,000 population

U.S. Population 2008 = 303,824,640

14.18 x 303,824.64 / 365 = 11,803 current live births per day, about 8 every minute.

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