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Bob Gathany

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

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Anna Claire Vollers/avollers@AL.com

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

A day in the life and death of Alabama: How many people are born and die in the state each day?

The Alabama Department of Public Health's Center for Health Statistics recently released a sampling of the state's vital statistics, including how many deaths, births, marriages and divorces there are on an average day. This data is from 2014, the most recent available.

During each day in Alabama, there are 163.1 live births.

Pictured here: Sara and Randall Socha feed their daughter, Grace, at the Huntsville Hospital NICU.

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Anna Claire Vollers/avollers@AL.com

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

According to the Department of Public Health, 13.9 of the daily births in Alabama are to teen mothers.

Pictured here is Kim Callis, a trained volunteer ‘cuddler’ in the Huntsville Hospital NICU.

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Anna Claire Vollers avollers@al.com

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

On average, 16.5 low weight babies are born each day in Alabama, according to the Department of Public Health.

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How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

In Alabama, 70.5 babies are born on average each day to unmarried women.

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Sarah Cole

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

On average, there are 18.7 induced terminations of pregnancy each day in Alabama. These terminations are typically miscarriages and abortions.

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Bob Gathany

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

According to the Alabama Department of Public Health, there are 137.3 deaths each day in Alabama.

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AP, M. Spencer Green

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

Of those deaths, 34.1 are caused by heart disease.

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John Sharp | jsharp@al.com

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

On average, 28.2 people die of cancer each day in Alabama.

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Warren Kulo | wkulo@al.com

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

On an average day, 6.6 people die accidental deaths in Alabama.

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Warren Kulo | wkulo@al.com

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

Motor vehicle crashes on average cause 2.4 deaths each day in Alabama.

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Joe Songer (jsonger@al.com)

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

During each day in Alabama, an average of one person dies in a homicide.

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How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

According to the Alabama Department of Public Health, on an average day 1.9 people die of suicide.

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Mobile Register, John David Mercer

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

During each day in Alabama, there are an average of 1.4 infant deaths and 1.4 fetal deaths.

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How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

During each day in Alabama, an average of 104 people are married.

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Leada Gore | lgore@al.com

How many people are born and die each day in Alabama?

On average, 50.7 couples file for divorce each day in Alabama.