Tesla patron on Twitter
(father of seven) had his say on our country’s poor birth rate. In the last places South Korea and Hong Kong
If these trends continue, Italy will no longer have a population: the alarm does not come from Istat, but from the volcanic patron of Tesla Elon Musk. Father of seven children – the last of whom is called by the singular name of X A-Xii -, the richest man in the world said he was concerned about the very low birth rates recorded in many countries around the world. He did it on Tuesday away Twitter
(the social network it is trying to acquire for $ 44 billion)
posting a graph of the Wall Street Journal relative to the decline in births in the United States from 1940 onwards. The US birth rate has fallen below sustainable lows for nearly 50 years, wrote in support of the image. And then he added in the same thread: Contrary to what many think, the richer a person, the fewer children he has. I am a rare exception. Most of the people I know have no children or only one.
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USA birth rate has been below min sustainable levels for ~50 years pic.twitter.com/v5PSLbvEAE
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 24, 2022
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However, it’s not just the US data that worries Musk. Always among the comments, in fact, he also pointed out: The South Korea e Hong Kong they are the nations that are experiencing the fastest demographic collapse. Note that the replacement rate (which allows the population to remain numerically constant, ndr) from 2.1 children per woman. Italy, at the meager share of 1.24 children per womanin this respect occupies one of the last places globally.
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South Korea and Hong Kong are experiencing the fastest population collapse. Note, 2.1 kids per woman is replacement rate.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 24, 2022
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At this point, the Roman data analyst intervened in the conversation Andrea Stroppawho in turn shared a graph on the new born from 1946 to 2019 in Italy: in the postwar period and in the years of the economic boom they were over a million a year, today they have dropped below 400,000. Even if we have good welfare – Stroppa observed -, the birth rate in Italy is plummeting. More specifically, in our country a rate higher than the fateful threshold of 2.1 children per woman was reached for the last time in 1976. Since then, as can be seen from the curve, it has been a slow (and apparently inexorable) decline. Hence Musk’s reply. Discouraging, of course. But also flawless.
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Italy will have no people if these trends continue
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 24, 2022
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May 25, 2022 (change May 25, 2022 | 18:21)
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