Highest Fertility Countries with Exceptions

But in general, the Kazakh government's policy is very encouraging of large families, much more successful than Russia, which constantly sounds the alarm on demographics. Most likely, this is a matter of mentality. From my childhood, I remember that for Kazakhs, having many children was a sign of wealth and prosperity (many children means you have money to raise them). By the way, this is their difference from Russian Kazakhs with a corresponding Russian mentality (I can say as a Russian Kazakh, the new generation does not strongly strive for large families), where more wealthy people prefer to have less children and personal freedom is more valuable.