Elon Musk’s warning for Europe: ‘Either Europe starts having…or…’

Elon Musk has once again emphasised his concern over declining birth rates, asserting that parents in Europe need to have large families or the region will “keep dying”. This is the second such warning in a matter of a month with Musk previously recommending people to have at least three children in order to prevent population collapse.

This recent statement on X (formerly Twitter) was a direct response to claims that Europe’s fertility rate is dropping below the 2.1 replacement level. He shared a 2024 map showing rates as low as 1.18 in countries like Italy.