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Births Today
+251 per minute · since 00:00 UTC
Estimated, not measured
The global birth rate has roughly halved since 1960. Population is still growing mostly because people are living longer and because there are so many people already of childbearing age — not because families are getting larger.
Estimated births worldwide since midnight UTC.
Nobody counts this as it happens. EarthNow takes a published figure for the whole day, divides it by the 86,400 seconds in a day, and multiplies by the seconds elapsed since midnight UTC. So the value climbs smoothly and is the right order of magnitude — but the smoothness is arithmetic, not observation. Nothing happening in the world is being watched in real time.
value = daily total ÷ 86,400 × seconds since 00:00 UTC
A consequence worth knowing: the counter resets at midnight UTC, not at your midnight. And because every signal advances at a constant rate, this page cannot tell you whether today is unusual. For that you need a measurement.
~132 million births per year, spread evenly across the year.
The figure is theirs; the running total is ours. Cite them for the number, and EarthNow for what it looks like as it accumulates.