"As a reference, in the West, child births exploded in COVID." Did they really? Looks to me like they've remained static at extremely low levels. The decline

"As a reference, in the West, child births exploded in COVID." Did they really? Looks to me like they've remained static at extremely low levels. The decline since 2009 has been arrested, but that actually happened around 2018, and they haven't really recovered even to replacement rate. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/fertility-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/fert... https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/fertility-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/GBR/united-kingdom/fer... https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/DEU/germany/fertility-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/DEU/germany/fertility-...