Multi-child dad Elon Musk as a regular comment on Korea's low birth rate...
Mar 31, 2025
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In an interview with Fox News, which was released on the 29th (local time), Musk said that the biggest concern about the future of humanity is 'low fertility rate' In places like Korea, the fertility rate is one-third of the alternative fertility rate. This means that after three generations, Korea will be 3 to 4 percent of its current size." In fact, Korea's total fertility rate last year was 0.75, far short of the replacement fertility rate of about 2.1, which is the total fertility rate required to maintain the current population size.
This is not the first time Musk has mentioned Korea's low birth rate.
In a post on X (X, formerly Twitter) in 2022, he has posted several related contents on social media since mentioning that "'Korea is experiencing the fastest population collapse in the world along with Hong Kong.'" At the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference held in Saudi Arabia last year, he also said that `on the basis of the current fertility rate, the Korean population will be much smaller than about a third of what it is now.'
Meanwhile, Musk is known to have 14 children with four women.
He had six children with his ex-wife Justin Musk, 52, who divorced in 2008, and the first of them, who was born in 2002, died 10 weeks after he was born. Canadian singer Grimes, 37, has three children and Shivon Gillis, 39, an executive of brain neuroscience start-up Neuralink, has four children. Last month, influencer Ashley St. Clare, 31, filed a paternity and custody lawsuit claiming that Elon Musk was the father of the baby she gave birth to five months ago.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
