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.
More babies are born in July - the month of Prince George's birth - than any other month (and boys are more common than girls) July was the busiest month on labour wards for five of the 11 years to 2011. More boys than girls are born in every month - 105 for every 100 girls. The number of babies born in the UK is at its highest for four decades.