>>213020970>they just had a very different post-Soviet era with less emigration and faster economic development which lead to larger families or something.well, on the other hand faster economic development should actually turn their birth rate even lower, shouldn't it? usually it works like that
well, fertility issues are quite complicated and there are always a lot of factors at work, contributing to general birth rates in the country, there are economic, cultural, infrastructural, psychical or imo even climate-related factors