Elon Musk, who encouraged the public to have more babies, is back with Fear of population collapse with a falling birth rate.

In a tweet on Friday, Musk said the US faces consequences due to a falling birth rate and that “Japan is a leading indicator.”

The billionaire entrepreneur responded to a tweet about a report about the projected depletion of Social Security funds by 2033.

Reuters reported that the country’s Social Security system central trust fund reserves will be exhausted in 2033 — a year earlier than expected — while finances surrounding the country’s Medicare program have improved slightly.

Accordingly Data According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, about 3.7 million babies were born in the US in 2021, about 46,000 more than in 2020, but the 1% increase still accommodated the number the level of 2019.

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Births have also fallen by an average of 2% annually since 2014, including a fall that has doubled between 2019 and 2020.

Last month, Japan’s prime minister said the country was on the verge of being unable to function amid a sharp drop in the country’s birth rate. In 2021, the population of Japan was 125.5 million CNN.

in one tweet shared in January, Musk reiterated his warning of population collapse, saying, “Population collapse is a major risk to the future of civilization.” He also shared a link World Bank Data showing that fertility rates worldwide were at their lowest since the 1960s.

Last August, Musk warned that “due to population collapse Low birth rates are a far greater risk to civilization than global warming.”

He also said in a podcast that “people are living longer – it’s the only reason the world’s population isn’t declining”.

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