I know Eastern Europe, whatever one may think of them, can do better than this..
I think Spain has the lowest rate of 1.1, which Mark Steyn says no nation has ever recovered from.
In many of these nations, things are going badly, and many people have concluded that it’s not a good world to bring a child into.
I would think that the insidious modern day holocaust of abortion is taking a toll on Western Culture in general, besides the effects of the disease of the spirit caused by cheapening the value of human life. I had heard several years ago that abortions in Russia were at significantly high levels per capita.
It’s a race to convert radical Islam to liberal, green and globalist causes before the proponents of said causes are obliterated by simple demographics.
Do any of these stories figure in all the young expats working abroad?