From the course: Everyday Statistics, with Eddie Davila

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Baby statistics

Baby statistics

From the course: Everyday Statistics, with Eddie Davila

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Baby statistics

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- [Instructor] Babies. People love babies. They're cute to look at and they smell great. But parents that have babies know that babies are very different from adults or even kids. So let's consider how different babies are from the rest of us by using statistics. If you sleep eight hours per night, nice job. You're sleeping about 2,920 hours per year. But the average baby sleeps 5,400 hours in their first year, 84% more hours of sleep. By the way, there are only 8,760 hours in a year. So while a healthy adult sleeps about 33% of the year, the average baby sleeps almost 62% of the time in year number one. All of that sleep helps them grow. The average baby grows 10 inches in that first year. The average baby is born about 20 inches, so a person that grows to a height of 5'7" will achieve 21% of their overall growth in their first year. If they continued a growth rate of 10 inches per year, they'd be 15 feet tall at age 16.…

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