[Retric]

> no country has reversed its birth rate problem.

America has, it reversed below subsistence rate birth rates. More importantly despite some years of negative population growth the net long term trend is slow population growth.

So despite both issues the long term trend is slow net population growth. Thus significantly below subsistence birth rates where flipped from a massive issue to a non issue.

[Gud]

So it hasn’t?

[kibwen]

US fertility rates first fell below replacement in 1972, falling to 1.8 by 1984, then rising back above replacement by 2007, then falling to 1.79 today. Despite being below replacement for 53 of the last 54 years, overall US population has never declined.

https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2023/highcharts/data/dubina-cha...

[Retric]

There’s years where the population declined due to migration, the long term trend is very much a net positive.

Recent policies have resulted in significant population decline, but so far they are just another blip.