How many leap years are there in 200 years?

There is a leap year every four years. However, there length of the Earth's orbit is not exactly 365. 25 days; it is actually a little longer. So, every century we need a few additional days. read more

Any 200-year period has either 48 or 49 leap years, depending on whether or not the period includes a year that is evenly divisible by 400 (any 400-year period always has 97 leap years). read more

Leap years occur once in 4 years. So, there are 200 : 4 = 50. But, sometimes one will be missed because divisible by 100 but not by 400, so you will get only 49. read more

So, to make the calculation accurate, we have 24 leap years instead of 25 each in a span of 100, 200 and 300 years.Therefore, in a span of 400 years, we have 97(24+24+24+25) leap years instead of 100 leap years. read more