How Many People Share Your Birthday?
Your birthday is the best, most awesome day in the world. It marks an exact number of years since the day you were born — a huge deal. Of course, we got great questions about this from not one but two of our fans. Paige O. asked us, how many babies are born each day? Then Megan S. asked, how many people share your birthday? (and thank you ladies for the great artwork!) If you think about it, they’re asking the same thing. The day you were born, you weren’t the only baby starting life that day, or even that hour. Every day about 353,000 babies are born! That comes to more than 240 babies every minute, and the number keeps going up. So lots of people share your birthdate, and many of those people even have the same exact time as yours listed on their birth certificates. But don’t worry — you still get your own cake.
Questions
Wee ones: How many years ago were you born? Count up to your age!
Little kids: What’s the month and date of your birthday? Which are you closer to, your last birthday, or the birthday that’s coming up? Bonus: If you subtract the year you were born from 2016, do you get your age? If not, why not?
Big kids: If every minute exactly 240 babies are born, how many babies share your birth minute with you? Bonus: How many babies are born each second?
The sky’s the limit: If 353,000 babies (including you) were born the day you were born, how many other people share your exact birthdate?
Little kids: What’s the month and date of your birthday? Which are you closer to, your last birthday, or the birthday that’s coming up? Bonus: If you subtract the year you were born from 2016, do you get your age? If not, why not?
Big kids: If every minute exactly 240 babies are born, how many babies share your birth minute with you? Bonus: How many babies are born each second?
The sky’s the limit: If 353,000 babies (including you) were born the day you were born, how many other people share your exact birthdate?
Answers:
Wee ones: Different for everyone…and count 1, 2, 3…to your age.
Little kids: Different for everyone. Bonus: If you get a number 1 more than your age, it means your 2016 birthday hasn’t happened yet. On that day, you will be exactly that many years from your birth year, and your age will match.
Big kids: 239 babies. Bonus: 4 babies every second!
The sky’s the limit: 352,999 other people
Little kids: Different for everyone. Bonus: If you get a number 1 more than your age, it means your 2016 birthday hasn’t happened yet. On that day, you will be exactly that many years from your birth year, and your age will match.
Big kids: 239 babies. Bonus: 4 babies every second!
The sky’s the limit: 352,999 other people