That's .. strange > countering the declining birthrates in Denmark and Sweden Both Denmark and Sweden have been plummeting nonstop for a decade+ now, how is i

That's .. strange > countering the declining birthrates in Denmark and Sweden Both Denmark and Sweden have been plummeting nonstop for a decade+ now, how is it possible to interpret that as a success in countering decline? https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/borgere/befolkning/fertilitet https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/borgere/befolkning/fer... https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?locations=SE https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?location... > often bring up I learned about JD Vance's existence yesterday (not really into politics) so i'm not going to defend whatever he said or didn't, but nobody in their right mind would set a country population size of Chicago (pretty much all of those above) as a demographic example to US-scale problems, if that's what is being referred to here. Perhaps something was mentioned along the lines of "at least those countries have kids subsidies which are more meaningful to the local COL than whatever measly tax allowances we have here in the US" - that would actually be accurate - but whatever. In reality, not one of the mentioned countries managed to turn anything around yet, all are stuck well below replacement, mostly with pretty bleak trends.