Four words that cause shock wrote the Mask In his account in x, referring to birthplace of Greece.
Elon Musk, with today’s (02.09.2025) post comments on the demographic crisis-the intense birth of our country-, writing “The Death of Greece”.
Tesla and Space X’s powerful man accompanies the post with a related report writing that over 700 schools have been closed in Greece due to the prolonged demographic crisis.
“Greece has one of the lowest fertility rates in the European Union – about 1.3 births per woman, well below the replacement level of 2.1.
The population is growing rapidly, while young people are leaving the country in large numbers.
During the school year 2025-2026, 721 schools will be closed, as they failed to reach the minimum of 15 students required to stay open. “
The death of Greece https://t.co/zZt4Unl7rQ
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 2, 2025
Between 2011 and 2024, consistently negative natural balances (births minus deaths) are recorded, which – along with also negative immigration balances of the period – caused population reduction by nearly 500 thousand.
In the analysis by the Demographic and Social Analysis Laboratory-University of Thessaly, it is stated that today Greece is recording from the lowest annual fertility indicators in the European Union, with intergenerational fertility moving to 1.3-1.4 children/woman (in generations born around 1980).
At the same time, Greece is a relatively aging country as almost 23% of its inhabitants are over 65, while in 2023 the over 65 was almost 1 million more than young people 0-14.
At the same time, there is a progressive increase in the rates of childhood, which for generations around 1980 are now about 1 in 5 people.