No World Economic Forum document says that six billion people will die in 2025

Context

An article and video from the People's Voice claiming that a "WEF Document confirms 6 billion humans will die in 2025" has gone viral on social media (archived here and here). One video reached 3.2 million views on TikTok (archived here), while another post on X, formerly known as Twitter, reached 1.9 million views (archived here). 

The article and video claim a new World Economic Forum (WEF) report says that six billion people will die in 2025 in a plan to depopulate the earth. 

They further claim a BBC journalist reported she was "summoned to Davos" for a meeting with WEF Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab, where he "brief[ed] the mainstream media on which narratives to promote in order to advance the globalist agenda." During this meeting, Schwab is alleged to have talked about a depopulation agenda. 

The article discusses population forecasts from a website called Deagel.com, which predicts a massive population decline by 2025 of 70 percent. The forecast by Deagel.com is claimed to be a target rather than an estimation, which is on track "thanks to the deadly effects of COVID-19 vaccinations and other globalist bioweapons."

The People's Voice further claims Deagel.com is the work of "the globalist elite consisting of the CIA, the Pentagon, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the World Economic Forum," with Dr. Edwin A. Deagel Jr as the link and the individual who officially runs the website. The article claims this link is proven by letters to and from former CIA Director Stansfield Turner, Deagel's time within the U.S. government, and his role as deputy director of the international relations program at the Rockefeller Foundation. 

However, there is no such WEF document and no indication any BBC journalist was summoned to Davos. The website Deagel.com bases the forecast on migration and economic collapse, not death. The article also features several false claims regarding the COVID-19 vaccines and the pandemic, further undermining its credibility. 

The WEF report

The People's Voice article never mentions or returns to an actual World Economic Forum report stated at the beginning of the article. No such report can be found on the WEF website, and Google searches for "6 billion population collapse 2025" and "Depopulation" yielded no relevant results. 

The claim the WEF is the mastermind of a depopulation agenda is a typical false narrative put forward by conspiracy theorists, which has been debunked repeatedly in many different ways by several different fact-checking organizations. 

Logically Facts also contacted the WEF, which stated, "Claims linking the Forum to depopulation conspiracies are baseless and rooted in disinformation." A spokesperson continued, "Like many high-profile organizations or individuals, the Forum has seen a rise in conspiracy stories, both misinformation and disinformation. The Forum encourages grounded, fact-based debate as a core principle in our work, and we remain committed to our mission of improving the state of the world by fostering collaboration and dialogue."

The BBC journalist 

The People's Voice does not name the BBC journalist who allegedly attended the meeting. Therefore, this claim is outside the scope of fact-checkers as it cannot be confirmed as true or false beyond doubt. However, we have not found the story published before the People's Voice anywhere else. Logically Facts contacted the BBC for a comment but received no response.

A screenshot from the video with a section on "journalists" describing the supposed meeting with Klaus Schwab and other journalists. (Source: The People's Voice/Screenshot/Annotated by Logically Facts)

The ominous population forecasts

Deagel.com publishes news about the military and arms industry, as well as data and statistics on countries' wealth, strength, population, and military power. 

Previously, the site published population forecasts showing a global population decrease of approximately 70 percent in 2025. For example, the U.S. would drop from 326 million to 99 million and the U.K. from 65 to 14 million. We found the population forecasts have been cited on fringe conspiratorial websites, making claims similar to those of the People's Voice (examples archived here and here). 

The website has also delved into conspiracy theories such as the Great Reset (archived here), claiming it will be used to delay the "collapse of the Western financial system." 

Furthermore, its predictions have been wrong before. As noted by APP FactCheck, the website forecasted the U.S. population would fall to 248 million in 2020, when it reached 330 million. Population forecasts by the United Nations predict an increase in global population to 8.5 billion by 2030 and 10.4 billion by 2100. 

The People's Voice article claims Dr. Edwin A. Deagel ran Deagel.com.Jr and tried to link the website to "globalist elites," using Deagel Jr. as the link. 

While Dr. Edwin A. Deagel Jr. did work for the U.S. government, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the CIA letters are easily accessible, The People's Voice fails to show how the website is connected to Dr. Edwin A. Deagel Jr. in anything but name. 

Today, the website offers no transparency about its ownership. This is also the case in archived versions of the website. Thus, there is no evidence of the connection. In disclaimers added to the population forecasts, Deagel.com has repeatedly stated that the website is not-for-profit, built in spare time, and not linked to any government. 

The population forecasts cited by the People's Voice were removed from Deagel.com in late April 2021 but can still be found on archive.org. But does the website actually forecast a scenario in which 70 percent of the world's population perishes? 

The population forecast on Deagel.com. Note the change in population of the U.S. from 326 to 99 million. (Source: Archive.org/Screenshot/Annotated by Logically Facts)

No. First, it only covers 183 of the 195 countries. Second, in a disclaimer from 2014, Deagel claims to base its forecast of population decline on migration and alleged economic collapse, not death. 

Moreover, Deagel's statistics do not show an overall decrease worldwide but an increase and decrease across different countries. India, for example, was expected to increase in population from 1.2 to 1.3 billion.

The Deagel forecast is also allegedly based on a coming "collapse of the Western financial system," which would result in emigration from the U.S. Deagel.com has spoken about a potential global economic collapse since 2014, but this has not happened.  

In an updated disclaimer from September 2020 (archived here), the authors add conspiracy theories to explain its forecast, stating that "the COVID crisis will be used to extend the life of this dying economic system through the so-called Great Reset." This a common conspiratorial trope that Logically Facts has previously debunked. 

False COVID-19 claims

The People's Voice article also promotes false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines and the pandemic. The false claims include COVID-19 vaccines being bioweapons, the U.S. Department of Defense providing a contract for COVID research with Labyrith Gold Health Inc. before the pandemic, and repeating Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s false claim that military contractors manufactured the COVID-19 vaccines. While the People's Voice already is a frequent disseminator of disinformation, revoicing these debunked claims further undermines it and the legitimacy of the article. 

Tech Arp has also fact-checked the article and reached the same conclusion. 

The verdict

Since no such WEF document or report exists, no BBC journalist has reported on a secret media meeting with Schwab. Because Deagel.com's population forecast is based on migration and alleged financial collapse, not people dying, and its population forecasts have been wrong before, we have marked this claim as false.