This is good but also scary
Their women are still used as breeding cows, especially among the poorer areas, so this likely means they've committed so much female infanticide and sex selection abortion that even treating women like cows isn't enough to keep the population stagnant. They've killed so many women they cannot even force breed enough children.
I cannot wait for their population to collapse holy shit they're so vile. No wonder the ritual I'm researching seems to have no shortage of (formerly healthy looking) infant bodies to play around with. They must be killing so many of them.