Mongolia is the 19th largest country in the world. Half of its population resides in its capital city surrounded by massive swaths of empty land. While it’s most famously associated with the escapades of Genghis Khan, it is now back in the center of a new world empire.
– Elon Musk praised Mongolia’s government initiative for a recent baby boom, part of a broader retraditionalization.
– Mongolia’s efforts mirror pro-natal policies in Hungary, Russia, and Georgia, which have seen increased birth rates through incentives.
– Eric Kaufmann’s study shows that high fertility rates among religious conservatives are leading to global religious renewal.
Mongolia recently caught the eye of Elon Musk, who approvingly shared with his massive audience a new government initiative that has resulted in an extraordinary baby boom happening right now in Mongolia. Until recently, Mongolians always had a very high birth rate, averaging just over 7 children per woman, akin to what we see among the Amish population here in the States.
This changed in the early 90s, when that number dropped dramatically to just around 2 children per woman. Most scholars attribute that decline to the legalization of abortion around that time, as well as high unemployment and economic turbulence. Since the early 2000s, there has been a dramatic pro-natal turn-around, with birth rates surging once again past the 3 child per woman mark. One of the reasons for this turnaround was a profound process known as retraditionalization.
Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Mongolians have increasingly been returning to their nation’s culture, customs, and traditions as a way of reigniting a distinctively Mongolian civilization. In 2017, Mongolians elected as their president the nationalist populist candidate Khaltmaa Battulga, a former judo wrestling champion who many called the Mongolian Donald Trump. As part of that retraditionalization, Mongolian motherhood has gone through a process of resanctification.
Motherhood is now honored in an annual ceremony by the Mongolian government, and that place of honor has served to inspire and promote pronatal sentiments throughout the nation. What’s happening in Mongolia in terms of deliberate efforts by their government to promote fertility and population growth is happening around the world.
In places like Hungary, Russia, and the nation of Georgia, governments have been offering many tax and financial incentives to encourage families to boost the countries’ populations. Those efforts have been working. Hungary’s birthrates have gone from an historic low of just 1.2 children per woman to now nearing 2 children per woman.
The fundamental problems, indeed, the crisis that depopulation presents to any civilization has been detailed most recently in an essay by American Enterprise Institute scholar Nicholas Eberstadt entitled ‘The Depopulation Bomb.’ At the heart of this crisis is the loss of social churn, which refers to the dynamism of a society.
We have been seeing a very noticeable and steady decline in our churn. For example, our change of residence, an indicator that we’re moving up in the world in our careers, is at a 30 year low. Our education system, once the wonder of the world, is now at the bottom of all industrialized nations. Recipients of government programs like social security and medicare are beginning to outnumber those taxpayers who fund those programs, and the number of start-ups to existing businesses is at an all-time low.
This is the civilizational decline that Elon Musk has been warning about with regard to falling birthrates! But perhaps nowhere did we see the disastrous consequences of depopulation for Western powers more shockingly than in what recently happened in Afghanistan. One of the major reasons for the Taliban’s victory, often overlooked by analysts, is that the Afghan population is significantly younger than American and Western populations.
The median age among Afghans today is 18, in stark contrast to the United States, which is 38, or Britain, which is 40. The Taliban were deposed 20 years ago, at least half of Afghan men and women weren’t even alive when the Taliban last ruled, which at least in part explains their current popularity. Nations made up of 18-year-old men are far more prone to fight than nations composed of 40-year-olds.
The relative youthfulness of the Taliban membership meant that they were able to effectively wait-out the American and NATO occupation, while the relatively older American population grew increasingly tired and impatient with prolonged military campaigns overseas. The Afghan population is so young because of the degree of fertility among the Afghan people.
In his landmark 2013 study, ‘Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?,’ University of London scholar Eric Kaufmann documented how low fertility rates among Soviet women was one of the key factors that led to the Soviet’s eventual defeat in Afghanistan. Russian mothers, unwilling to sacrifice their only son, became vocal opponents against the Afghan campaign while Afghan fighters came from families with an average of seven or eight children.
Families with one child are far more hesitant to fight than families with several children. As Kaufmann observed, while birthrates have plummeted in secular progressive populations, high fertility rates among conservative religionists are awakening a religious renewal across the globe that is now effectively pushing back against the secular society of liberal globalism.
Rising fertility among religious populations along with falling fertility among liberal globalist populists is contributing to the awakening of a new traditionalist and conservative world, just like what is being seen in Mongolia. The way forward is to turn back. The populations that are embracing their religious traditions are the ones that are experiencing the most profound and noticeable population renewal.
These societies and economies are growing and increasingly thriving! The reembracing of religious tradition Mongolia isn’t just a culture stuck in its own past. Rather, Mongolia is proving itself to be the wave of the future!
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