/sci/ - Science & Math

Currently, the view on a national population decline is that it should be slowed/stopped/reversed, either by mass immigration or by reproductive/family-oriented policies.
However, as population has been shown to follow a logistic equation, wouldn't a population decline just be a natural reaction to an unnatural spike in population growth, say by mass vaccination and a decline in infant exposure globally? As in a nation's carrying capacity was increased, and so population followed suit but then it's capacity was reduced recently so now it's only natural that population would decrease.
Are there any countries whose policy is basically "let it happen" when it comes to population decline? I know this is really only a problem with first-world countries that have below-replacment birth levels. But then it makes sense doesn't it? These countries experienced a post-WWII boom, which enabled a larger populace, but now the boom is over so we see a reduction in carrying capacity, and a trend towards the limit.
What I am trying to get at is that I believe population decline is natural and nothing to worry about, it's just that the circumstances of living have changed for the countries experiencing this. In fact my hypothesis is that avoiding a population decline when a nation is over carrying capacity is detrimental to said nation, as it leads to suppressed wages, inflated costs of services, and, if you tried to stymie this decline with mass immigration, a lower social cohesion.
On the other hand, a decline back towards a nation's carrying capacity may increase wages and standard of living, and decrease costs of services.
So, are there any countries like this? I don't know of any, so I can't really examine my hypothesis.

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