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Five states report up to 81,000 fewer births since pandemic began and NYU Langone has seen 33% increase in egg freezing as record number of women put off having children. One of the biggest drops in births was seen in California, which saw 447,834 babies born in 2019. But, in 2020, this number fell to 386,288, representing an 13.7 percent decrease. 'If those numbers turn out to be close to what happens more generally in the country in the next few months, this will be a significant decline in fertility,' Dr Kenneth Johnson, a professor of sociology at the University of New Hampshire, told DailyMail.com.