[hunterpayne]

That correlation doesn't hold. There are plenty of places with few women's rights and big cities that have a low birth rates.

[lotsofpulp]

It's not a correlation, it's a conditional statement.

If women have the option to choose, then the vast majority choose 0, 1, or 2 kids. This conditional statement is upheld by basically all the total fertility rate trends in the world.

I'm seeing the same trends in rural and urban areas.

See figure 1:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441730.2024.2...