A LITTLE BACKGROUND MUSIC. Lead vocalist in a trio of Cleveland rock bands in her teens, Anne Cochran was putting down demos and jingles before making everything official with a degree in Theater and Voice from Case Western Reserve University.
The UNICEF estimates that an average of 353,000 babies are born each day around the world. The crude birth rate is 18.9 births per 1,000 population or 255 births globally per minute or 4.3 births every second (as of Dec. 2013 estimate) Our current world population is approximately 7.2 billion and growing. It passed the 7 billion mark in 2011.
With 360,000 babies born daily, this means 131 million births annually around the world, according to Ecology.com. Broken down even further, there are 15,000 births hourly, 250 births each minute and 4 births each second of the day around the world. Throughout the world, it is estimated that 140,000 people die each day, making there a daily rise in the population of 220,000 people, according to the WHO.