Definition of "births" []

• Plural form of birth. (noun)

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• "They note that the decline in births is equivalent to 135,000 fewer white males in the US and 127,000 fewer males in Japan over the past three decades and suggest that environmental factors are one explanation for these trends."
• "The largest decline in births were in California and Florida, two states hit hardest by the housing crisis."
• "The Great Depression and subsequent recessions all were accompanied by a decline in births, said Carol Hogue, an Emory University professor of maternal and child health and epidemiology."