• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      People in the US are having more kids than people in countries with much more parental benefits. Women rights and access to contraceptives measures and abortion have much more impact.

      US birthrate: 1.66 in 2022

      Canada birthrate (so people can’t call it a cultural difference): 1.33 in 2022

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      Not saying it is for similar reasons, but Russia is, as far as I know, quite comparable to European countries in this regard. They’re losing much more young men, so the demographic will be very different in the future but I don’t think birth rate is actually that far off and not nearly as dramatic as south-korea’s is for example.

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      How about loosing 27 million people 80 years ago fighting the Nazis? If that didn’t happen we could be counting the offspring of another 10-15 millions of Russians. Then the famine, loosing their country, and building a new state. The 1990s, early 2000s must have been the complete opposite in Russia than in the USA. Also, in the 1980s the USSR was already collapsing.