And this is where the education of women comes into play, providing even subsistence-level populations with birth control options. No parent wants to bring children into this world that they cannot effectively support, and no woman wants to be a brood mare.

Limited programs in Africa and Asia has shown this to be a wild success in slowing population growth, it just lacks widespread public funding and political will, as well as stable countries that aren’t having civil wars or genocidal religious purges.