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How many babies have been born today?
A live count of every baby born in the world since midnight UTC, updating every second. All of them are Generation Beta.
Since 00:00 UTC today. Refresh at midnight and it starts again.
About 363,000 babies are born worldwide every day — roughly 4.2 every second — and every one of them belongs to Generation Beta until the cohort closes on 31 December 2039.
How this number is built
The counter starts at zero at 00:00 UTC and advances at 4.2 births per second, the UN World Population Prospects global average. It is a modelled rate applied to elapsed time, not a feed of registered births — no such feed exists in real time anywhere in the world.
What it cannot tell you
Births are not evenly distributed across the day, the week or the year. This counter cannot see that. It is accurate as a daily total and approximate at any single moment inside the day.
Full derivation on the methodology page. Where we model a figure rather than cite a published one, we say so — please do not present model output as a measured statistic.
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Frequently asked
How many babies are born each day?
About 363,000 worldwide — roughly 4.2 every second.
Are all babies born today Generation Beta?
Yes. The Generation Beta cohort opened on 1 January 2025 and does not close until 31 December 2039, so every birth in that window belongs to it.
Is this a real count?
No, and no real-time count exists. It applies the UN global birth rate to elapsed time. The daily total is reliable; the exact second is modelled.
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