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Apart from Afghanistan and pockets of Sub-Saharan Africa, birth rates are plummeting around the world. During the 1970's, most countries in the Global South had birth rates of 6-8. By contrast, nowadays even the likes of Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Indian state of Kerala have below replacement birth rates, while Bangladesh is not much above replacement rate either. Except for extreme cases of coercion, such as China's now-axed One Child Policy, most of this has been down to drastic improvements in healthcare and women's rights.
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