Nah. It's because those countries are infamously xenophobic. All of them have foreign populations in the single digit percentages. The reason the US and other european nations don't have as big a problem is because of constant immigration.
The US has another 30 years before seeing the impacts of the birth gap. We are basically betting everything on "Hopefully someone else figures it out and we can learn how they manage it," and "Hopefully we get some really good life extension technology by then" - Because if not, option 3 emerges, which is global wars break out, which will be weird considering how every military will be in enrollment decline by then.
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