The news that has been trending on the internet for some time now is a statement attributed to Klaus Schwab, who is the founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF), an economist, and a mechanical engineer. The question is: did Klaus Schwab say that 6 billion people will perish in 2025?
Klaus Schwab and the 6 Billion Depopulation Claim
The question gained even more importance when a condition dubbed Fogvid-24 has been reported in major parts of the UK, the US, and Canada.
A thick fog has engulfed these parts of the world, and people exposed to the fog are suffering from flu-like symptoms, much akin to those precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Didn’t Klaus Schwab say that 6.0 billion people would die in 2025? I’m going with they are trying to kill us all!
— AntrimHill 🇺🇸🐸 (@AntrimHill) January 2, 2025
The fog-like conditions have also led to a slew of conspiracy theories, with many asserting that the fog is manmade. One theory was attributed to Klaus Schwab himself, claiming he predicted that 6 billion people would die in 2025.
However, the reality is that no such comment can be traced back to Klaus Schwab. Instead, a statement akin to what was attributed to him was written by John Coleman in his 1992 book titled The Conspirators’ Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300.
Coleman had written:
“At least 4 billion ‘useless eaters’ shall be eliminated by the year 2050 by means of limited wars, organized epidemics of fatal rapid-acting diseases, and starvation.”
Coleman believed in a conspiracy theory detailing mass extermination and ruthless population control.
The genesis of the rumours can be traced to posts on social networking sites Facebook and X in September 2024, which claimed that WEF documents confirm that 6 billion souls will die in 2025. The posts were based on an article dated August 22, which appeared on The People’s Voice website and alleged that the WEF report is hiding in plain sight and that Klaus Schwab himself had confirmed that the stated goal is on the path to being achieved.
However, Reuters has negated the claim that the World Economic Forum published any such document or report or that its founder made any such remarks that 6 billion people will die in 2025.
A WEF spokesperson issued an email statement that read:
“The World Economic Forum does not support nor advocate for depopulation. Claims linking the Forum to depopulation conspiracies are baseless and rooted in disinformation.”
The People’s Voice publication, on which the post was based, also stated that it did not reference any WEF report.
The predictions were instead based on the military equipment site Deagel.com, which claimed in an article dated 2020 that the total world population would decline by 478 million and not 6 billion by 2025 in 183 nations.
The deaths were attributed to various factors, including economic stagnation, migration, crises in the financial market, and depopulation.
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