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Re:South Korea: The only middle power of its kind by novok on Tuesday August 03, 2021 @01:24PM (#28051784)
The examples are older and from authoritarian countries, but china and iran had state sponsored baby booms. China was started by mao, iran was also started by the revolutionaries shortly after the revolution.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/06/why-does-iran-ha...

Re:South Korea: The only middle power of its kind by twelve40 on Monday August 16, 2021 @01:36AM (#28195234)
Thank you for sharing, it was interesting to read. However, the article is not at all clear about the actual effect of those state measures. Wikipedia says that the steadily high total fertility rate in that country plummeted after 1985.