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>>toomuc+(OP)
Hungary did succeed in raising its fertility rate, but in the last few years it's also been falling.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/332502/fertility-rate-in...

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?page=&lo...

I suspect that a couple years is not enough to draw any conclusions.

>>Albert+L8
Hungary recently promised a lifetime income tax break to women who have 4 or more children. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/have-four-or-more-babies-in-...

Have any other countries seen such a strong fertility rate bump as Hungary? I haven't seen any long trends that look that promising!

>>anonpo+ke
Russia has a pretty interesting one. [1] It's been rising every year since 1998, but it comes with a huge asterisk. They had a good fertility rate (by Western standards at least) up until the 1990s. But the collapse of the Soviet Union and the migration to a market economy in the 90s sent everything into chaos, and the country ended up in defacto anarchy for about a decade.

But I still think it's relevant, because it shows it is possible to get those rates back up again. They went from a rate of 1.247 to 1.826 in 20 years. Still nowhere near where it should be, but that's relatively rapid progress in a good direction. Perhaps more importantly, it also challenges many of the arguments people make about why fertility rates are collapsing in the West at large.

[1] - https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/RUS/russia/fertility-r...