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Originally Posted by Flyndaran

That could just as easily be considered ultra-religious versus more sectarian nations.

The historical link between economic development (and, particular, the strength of social safety nets and the wide distribution of wealth) and declining birth rates is fairly well established. Its much more likely that the divide between the US and Western Europe on natural population increase is due to the fact that the US has a narrower concentration of wealth than most Western European countries and a weaker social safety net than it is that it is due directly to social pressures from the religious community (now, certainly, a certain segment of the US religious community is closely tied to the political faction that actively works to maintain a narrow concentration of wealth and to keep the social safety net weak, so there is certainly not no link between religion and the comparatively high rate of natural growth.)