Surprisingly, a lot of these are Indian. As is the person I replied to.

Macaulay's kids.

Edit: he also mentioned about ban on single use plastics. That is very severely enforced.

>India's birthrate was high in the 1900s which makes sense since the whole country was primarily an agrarian society which was also heavily exploited and in extreme poverty.

The real reason was the sky high child mortality. No matter how many kids you had chances of having a few survive was low.

One of my great uncles had 14 kids. None survived. Another relative had twenty one of which nine survived.

My mother reckons child mortality was at least 50 percent. She is the only surviving child out of two siblings

I come from a very poor village in one of the 100 poorest districts of India.

All houses in my village have toilets. Built by the government. For free. To a very high standard.

Same with the houses in the surrounding villages