"total births" is a perfectly valid phrase to use in written English.
For example: "The statistics showed that the total births in the city increased by 8% last year".
Iceland had the lowest rate of stillbirth, with 1.3 of 1,000 total births.
It is the only region in the world where births to adolescent mothers represent the largest fraction of total births.
That is a small fraction of the roughly 4.3 million total births that year.
Every year an estimated 7.9 million children - 6% of total births worldwide - are born with a serious birth defect of genetic or partially genetic origin.
Hispanic, black, Asian and mixed-race babies made up 50.4% of total births in the 12 months to July 2011.
Males are born in excess of females, a ratio expressed as M/T (males:total births).
Data on total births and deaths come from the INE (2015b) and from the Human Mortality Database (2015).
The rate of growth has been fairly astonishing in the U.S., climbing from an average of 5.3percentt of total births in 1960 to close to 40percentt of total births today.
After finally getting to Sheffield's patient desk, she learned the woman had had 11 total births and only six of her children had survived.
Home births are rare (less than 1% of total births).
This represents 24% of total births for the year 2010.
