“There are certainly some big risks that humanity faces. Population collapse is a really big deal, but I wish more people would think about…the birth rate is far below what’s needed to sustain civilization at its current level,” Elon Musk explained in a recent interview posted on X.
Musk wrote in a post on X early last week, “Any nation with a birth rate below replacement will eventually cease to exist.”
This leaves us with a new report from the US National Center for Health Statistics showing US births continued a multi-decade slide to levels not seen in more than four decades.
There were 3.59 million babies born in 2023, down 2% from 3.66 million recorded in 2022. This number is the lowest since 1979, when 3.4 million babies were born.
“People are making rather reasoned decisions about whether or not to have a child at all,” Karen Benjamin Guzzo, director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said, who was quoted by The Wall Street Journal.
Guzzo continued, “More often than not, I think what they’re deciding is, ‘Yes, I’d like to have children, but not yet.'”
America’s declining total fertility rate peaked at 3.75 births per woman after World War II and has since collapsed to about 1.617, well below the replacement rate of 2.1.
This is what the elitists and liberals want. You should not be shocked.
Amnesty is a coming….. need to get illegals legally on the books to pay uncle Sam. Sales tax aint enuf.
No 336, need to get illegals out of our country now !!!!
Nobody can afford to have babys !!! Thank Biden
7:30…………………You hit the nail right on the head!!! Unless you have unlimited access to EBT, WIC, SNAP, and all the other freebie cards, you can’t afford to have children with Obiden in office. The people who work for a living just can’t afford to take care of kids needs.