India and China will have to find a solution to this population decline quickly. They will have to make policies that increase fertility rates, improve elderly healthcare, and most importantly, adapt the economy to future demographic changes. This is not just an issue of population numbers – it is also about quality of life, economic stability, and responsibility for future generations.

Conclusion

Elon Musk’s concerns are absolutely correct. When the world’s largest population centers are experiencing such huge declines, we have to think about what will happen next. When the labor force of these countries shrinks, how will innovation, economic strength and global leadership be sustained? India and China have to plan now for their demographic challenges, so that in the future we have a world where population dynamics are quite different from now.