Question Asked: How Many Times A Day Do We Breathe?

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The amount of times an average human breathes per day, also called respiratory rate varies from person to person.

However, the average, based on my breathing (and what little accurate stats I could find on the internet) is roughly 23,000.

To figure out my daily breathing, I counted (four separate times) how many times I breathe in a minute, and go an average of 16.

16 x 60 = 960 breaths per hour.
960 x 24 = 23,040 breaths per day.

This is assuming that you breathe at the same rate when sleeping, which based on what I’ve read, you do.

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