[dyauspitr]

> Actually, if wages are high and taxes are low, chances are that the birth rate will rise

Absolutely incorrect. There is not one case of this happening, infact it’s the exact opposite. It’s a common fallacy.

The only correlation for birth rate is that it is inversely correlated with women’s education.

[Saline9515]

It depends where you are, and the local culture. Besides, if a society wants to have less children, it's a choice that doesn't imply the need for immigration. Let people bear the consequences.

[dyauspitr]

I don’t think any nation is willing to bear the consequence of functional extinction in the next 100 years like South Korea is facing.

[Saline9515]

South Korea won't be extinct in 100 years, it's one of the densest country on earth, if its population reduces by 60% in the meantime it will be dense like...Switzerland. Is Switzerland in the state of "functional extinction"? No. (Also, same density as North Korea).

Meanwhile every Indian flees their awesome home country, and no one complains about the emigration and indian population reduction. Maybe because it's also a way for them to fix the selective abortions and widely biased sex ratio that came as a consequence?

[dyauspitr]

You seem to know very little for confidently spouting “facts”. Functionally extinct means it’s a country of old people that can’t make any more kids. Population density has nothing to do with anything - https://www.keaf.org/en/book/EAF_Policy_Debates/The_Risk_of_...

Indians will directly tell you it’s not awesome but it’s definitely on the path to being so. If it can pull off its performance from the last 15 years for the next 15, it will be developed.

India’s birth rate is far below replacement rate already. So much so that the government is starting to encourage people to have more kids again.