alt Hacker News> But demographers have long shown that what really counts is girls’ education.
Interesting, they mention JUST education as the deciding factor. Would it not be education AND birth control?
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tuatoru • today at 5:35 AM
Traditionally, female years of education, child mortality, and GDP per capita (in order of importance) explain 85% of fertility, and the residual is not biased in either direction.
source: Lant Pritchett, long-time development economist.
Edit: I don't think anyone outside the Taliban seriously wants to reverse the trends in any of those 3 factors.
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I think the point is, birth control usage is dependent on education rather than how hard it is to get. And maybe it is easy to get in India, I have no idea.