A human has 12 pairs of ribs. Count the ribs on both sides…

The skeleton has $206$ bones. The axial skeleton has $80$ bones: the skull ($8$ cranial and $14$ facial bones), the hyoid ($1$), the ear ossicles ($6$), the vertebral column ($26$ units: $7$ cervical, $12$ thoracic, $5$ lumbar, $1$ sacral, $1$ coccygeal), the sternum ($1$) and $12$ pairs of ribs ($24$). Ribs: $7$ pairs true, $3$ pairs false, $2$ pairs floating.