Based on what?
The Eastern Catholic Churches allow for married priests but under scrupulous assessment. Even the Eastern churches encourage a celibate priesthood. It is only in the Latin Church that ALL priests take a vow of celibacy.
Based on populations mostly.
Encouraging will remain the norm, however the Catholic church already allows many exceptions to celibacy.
Personally I'd be far more comfortable knowing a priest was going home to his wife every night than wondering whether he's from a gay semenary which frequently overlooks the vow of celibacy in an affront to God and desecration of holy places.
I do not suspect I am alone in that.
" The Eastern Catholic Churches allow for married priests but under scrupulous assessment."
Absolutely...and this cannot be stressed enough, once one is ordained, one may not contract a marriage. In other words, save in a very few rare instances, you marry before you are ordained to the diaconite or you don't marry at all.
"Even the Eastern churches encourage a celibate priesthood."
Celibacy is considered the highest calling. All Orthodox celibates are monastics. If they are priests, they are called priest/monks.
I trust we will never see the day, and I don't think we will, when the Eastern Church allows formerly celibate priests to marry.