'Fewer marriages, fewer children, more divorces': Entrepreneur warns of world’s 2050 crisis

By 2050, humanity may be having fewer children—not out of choice, but necessity. The cost of raising a child in an underemployed, economically strained world will be so high that marriage and parenthood may become luxuries, not norms. That’s the future Rajesh Sawhney, founder and investor based in Gurgaon, sees—not a return to the 1950s, but a pivot into something far more unsettling. Advertisement

Responding to a post forecasting a revival of traditional values, early marriages, and a multipolar balance between the U.S., China, and India, Sawhney offered a starkly different—and darker—vision.

“Less marriages, less children, more divorces as we go towards 2050,” he wrote on X, adding that economic survival, not cultural values, will shape family decisions in the coming decades. “The cos