On each day of 2012, there was an average of 160 births in Alabama, 135 deaths, 108 marriages and 47 divorces.

And, on average across the state last year, 17 teens gave birth each day, 22 pregnancies were terminated, 2.3 people died in car wrecks and 28 people died of cancer.

That's according to the recently released 'Vital Statistics at a Glance' report annually released by the Alabama Department of Public Health's Center for Health Statistics.

The report, released each autumn, is compiled from birth and death certificates, marriage and divorce records and Census data and gives a glimpse of life and death in Alabama.

In 2012, heart disease and cancer -- the state's two biggest killers -- claimed a total of 22,266 lives in Alabama. Assuming each citizen would live to age 65, heart disease in 2012 claimed 36,746 potential years of life in Alabama and cancer 34,782 potential years.

The report offers plenty of trivia.

For example, in 2012 in Alabama: