"Conception rates dropped too. And contraception rates increased!"

Remind me, that's a problem how exactly?  Seems to me on planet that's brimming with several billion more human beings than the planet can comfortably sustain, those statistics come as welcome news indeed. Unless of course you're a biblical fundamentalist who thinks God's admonition to Adam and Eve to be "fruitful and multiply" still applies today on a planet of over seven billion people.