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Hungary and Poland are making serious efforts to boost their birth rates.

Hungary gives life time tax exemption to mothers of 4 children, and may lower that to 3.

It's too early to tell if it's working.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/04/baby-bonuses-f...

Hungary and Poland also have incredibly interventionist governments who are happy to not only ecourage family formation through economic policy but also cultural policy. The former is fairly easy and many other developed countries are going down that road. The latter is the part that some countries in Western Europe and the USA do not want to touch with a ten foot pole, but it is the more important metric.

You want more families? You need to unashamedly celebrate your nation and culture.

No offense, but this seems like a very weak, and virtually un-falsifiable, theory. Is there rigorous data that suggests culture is a major factor in driving population growth? Economic policy, housing and family-planning policy, education and labor policy, are the only true factors that undeniably and reliably drive population growth.

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