https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/12/how-countries-prepare-for-population-growth-and-decline/ "While gender equality has often been cited as a barrier to higher birth rates in the past, this no longer seems to be the case." Mongolia appears to be exposing a natural experiment. If South Korea's investments in public daycare centers, free nurseries, and subsidized child care are not helping, why does something equivalent in Mongolia not happening there. Demographics are mind-blowing. Obviously, the only option in the United States in the short term is going to be to have better immigration. Certainly not on the table at the moment.