u/Redditor_imfo

Many people believe that low birth rates and population ageing are phenomena of recent decades, but this is not the first time such a situation has occurred, in particular in Europe. The interwar period was one of the first major demographic crises in modern European history. During the 1920-1930s, several European countries saw fertility rates fall to historically low levels, while mortality remained far higher than it is today and populations continued to age.

In the minds of many Westerners, Muslim countries are often associated with large families, early marriages, and relatively few unmarried adult women.

However, the reality in many Muslim-majority countries today is very different. In some cases, fertility rates have fallen to levels comparable to or even lower than those of many Western nations....