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Fortune
Alexa Mikhail

Expert blames phones as a driving factor for the declining birth rate that Elon Musk warns could lead to human extinction

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The world’s population apex is in sight. 

The United Nations predicts the global population will peak at 10.3 billion by the mid-2080s and cap off. Once speculated to be centuries away, the peak is now within grasp due to declining fertility rates across the world. 

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