From NPR.

Chile is experiencing a sharp drop in the number of babies being born each year.

Positive trends — the rise of women in education and the workplace and a rapid drop in adolescent pregnancies — also mirror what’s happening in the U.S. and in many parts of the world, according to Vladimíra Kantorová, the U.N.’s chief population scientist and co-author of last month’s report.

But, as in the U.S., many conservative leaders in Chile view these demographic changes very differently. And Martina Yopo Diaz, a sociologist at Santiago’s Catholic University, fears that population aging and decline will escalate so fast that governments will respond by trying to force women to have more children by restricting abortion, contraception and family planning.