it might be one or two or three or more newlines in the last field
Well it'd be nice if your sample data would reflect that. Anyhow. I'd solve this using a simple algorithm rather than a complicated regex that backtracks god knows how often with all these .*
Consider: 
use warnings;
use strict;

my @record;

while (<DATA>)
{
    if (/^\d+\~/ && @record)
    {
        print join (" ", @record), "\n";
        @record = ();
    }
    
    chomp;

    push @record, $_;
}

print join (" ", @record), "\n";

__DATA__ 
99~Markus~Holli~Mobilenum:
1234-567 , from Earth
Europe
White
Human
98~Mahesh~Babu~Mobilenum:
5678-901 , from Earth
India
Brown
Human

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Output 
99~Markus~Holli~Mobilenum: 1234-567 , from Earth Europe White Human
98~Mahesh~Babu~Mobilenum: 5678-901 , from Earth India Brown Human

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holli

You can lead your users to water, but alas, you cannot drown them.

In reply to Re^4: perl regex to match newline followed by number and text by holli
in thread perl regex to match newline followed by number and text by arunkumarzz

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