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Life Clock
Each counter spreads its own reported annual total evenly through the day. Births and deaths may use different reporting years; inspect each metric’s source and reporting period. These are scale illustrations, not live vital records.
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≈ 9,896 people / day historical pace
Resets at midnight UTC · refresh does not restart it
What makes this number move?
Historical basis: 2025
Historical pace × elapsed time in the selected window. Actual activity is uneven; this is not a live event or transaction feed.
Divide the final annual birth count by the actual 365 days in the reporting year and 86,400 seconds. Reset the illustration at midnight UTC. Freeze two years after year end.
Final annual CDC birth count spread evenly for scale; not a live birth registration feed.
≈ 8,395 people / day historical pace
Resets at midnight UTC · refresh does not restart it
What makes this number move?
Historical basis: 2024
Historical pace × elapsed time in the selected window. Actual activity is uneven; this is not a live event or transaction feed.
Divide the reported annual total by the actual 366 days in 2024 and 86,400 seconds. Reset the illustration at midnight UTC. Freeze two years after the reporting year ends.
Historical pace illustration, not a live count of deaths. Observation year and retrieval date are distinct; this page does not provide a report publication date.
EXPLORE THE SCALE
What does this pace mean over a minute or an hour?
Births · based on 2025. This converts the historical activity rate into a time interval you choose.
7 people
Calculation: stated rate × selected seconds. This is a scale illustration, not observed activity during that interval, a prediction or a change to the main counter. Actual activity varies; a negative rate represents a decrease.
READING THIS BOARD
Are the changing numbers actual individual events?
Modeled counters spread reported demographic totals over time. They illustrate scale rather than identify individual births or deaths.
Make a fair comparison
Check geography and source period. Estimates from different populations or reporting years should not be combined as one observed total.
How this number works
Births
Divide the final annual birth count by the actual 365 days in the reporting year and 86,400 seconds. Reset the illustration at midnight UTC. Freeze two years after year end.
Final annual CDC birth count spread evenly for scale; not a live birth registration feed.
Deaths
Divide the reported annual total by the actual 366 days in 2024 and 86,400 seconds. Reset the illustration at midnight UTC. Freeze two years after the reporting year ends.
Historical pace illustration, not a live count of deaths. Observation year and retrieval date are distinct; this page does not provide a report publication date.
Official sources
Audit trail & all metric versions
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Births
- Period
- 2025
- Source release date
- 2026-10-21
- Version
- Official source import · 2025
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-26T15:30:32.148Z
- Valid through
- 2028-01-01T00:00:00Z
Deaths
- Period
- 2024
- Source release date
- Not supplied
- Version
- Official source import · 2024
- Retrieved
- 2026-10-26T15:30:32.297Z
- Valid through
- 2027-01-01T00:00:00Z