<P> Phil Ruthven of the business information firm IBISWorld believes the spike in fertility was more about timing and less about monetary incentives . Generation X was now aged 25 to 45 years old . With numerous women putting pregnancies off for a few years for the sake of a career, many felt the years closing in and their biological clocks ticking . </P> <P> On 1 March 2014, the baby bonus was replaced with Family Tax Benefit A. By then the baby bonus had left its legacy on Australia . </P> <P> In 2016, Australia's fertility rate has only decreased slightly to 1.91 children per woman . </P> <P> In the 20th century, several authoritarian governments have sought either to increase or to decrease the births rates, often through forceful intervention . One of the most notorious natalist policies is that which occurred in communist Romania in the period of 1967 - 1990 during communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu, who adopted a very aggressive natalist policy which included outlawing abortion and contraception, routine pregnancy tests for women, taxes on childlessness, and legal discrimination against childless people . This period has later been depicted in movies and documentaries (such as 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Children of the Decree). These policies temporarily increased birth rates for a few years, but this was followed by a later decline due to an increased use of illegal abortion . Ceaușescu's policy resulted in over 9,000 women who died due to illegal abortions, large numbers of children put into Romanian orphanages by parents who couldn't cope with raising them, street children in the 1990s (when many orphanages were closed and the children ended on the streets), and overcrowding in homes and schools . The irony of Ceaușescu's aggressive natalist policy was a generation that may not have been born would eventually lead the Romanian Revolution which would overthrow and have him executed . </P>

Why did the crude birth rate (cbr) decline between 1990 and 2015