How many federal regulations are there? Some people count the pages of the Federal Register, which issues proposed and final rules. As a measure of government regulatory activity it might be useful, but otherwise not. Many pages in the Register do not contain regulations, so if you say there were 81,000 pages published in the Federal Register in 2015, it doesn't tell you much.
A good guesstimate of the number of total regulations came from the Congressional Research Service.
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