India, June 26 -- Tech billionaire Elon Musk has urged parents to have at least three children to prevent the world's population from collapsing. The Tesla CEO was responding to a post by an X user who claimed that every woman needs to have 2.7 children for the human race to survive.

Citing a study in a Fortune report from May, the user added that Musk's been warning about population collapse due to low birth rates for years. " If things continue as they are, humans have their days numbered," he said.

Musk reshared the post and added that, according to his calculations, all parents should have three children to compensate for those people who are choosing to be childless. "People who have kids do need to have 3 kids to make up for those...