“Better education for girls and women would lead to lower fertility rates, slowing down the Earth’s population growth, the researchers show in their analysis.”
Did not work in China or India.
India’s birth rate has dropped every year since 1950. Still growing population, but not near the rate it was. So yes it has definitely slowed growth.
Actually it did - the population growth is all among the unindoctrinated, er, uneducated.