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Not sure if this is more appropriate in the ASB or Pre-1900 threads.

With the current global fertility crisis and the notion of empowering women leading to lower birth-rates, how would various colonial, native and other oppressive regimes utilize such knowledge had they unwittingly discovered than quickly / stealthy weaponized it to further cement their hold over their colonies in Africa and Asia (or home nations) for a bit longer or almost indefinitely? Another side effect being to slow / butterfly away much of Africa and Asia's exponential population growth rate compared to OTL or at minimum make their declining birth-rates roughly comparable to what is being experienced from Western countries as well as even in less developed countries?

Additionally how would the ATL World Population compare to the present day's 7.7 Billion people (as of 2019) if the above did not prevent decolonization from happening as in OTL?

Would a post-1900s POD be too late for some colonies to empower women (as well as industrialize) earlier on in OTL thereby necessitating a pre-1900s POD or would a post-1900s POD still be fairly feasible?
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