Nowhere GirlDeclining birth rates are a standard feature of modernization across cultures and it's only a problem because cultures like the US get stuck in a rut of trying to preserve premodern cultural modes that are no longer useful, like the belief that society needs millions of tedious, low paid factory jobs to be successful or that women must be forced to have children to preserve population levels (and racial caste systems).
Tiota Sram@gwynnion capitalists: "Life is a fierce competition for limited resources! Nations need to go to war to secure resources for their future! Companies and individuals must compete for survival!"
Me: "So if the population of a country declines, that's a good thing because everyone there gets richer, right? Less competition and scarcity?"
Capitalists, who have triple mortgaged the present against a presumption of infinite population growth: "No, population decline is horrible! It's an existential threat!"