One in three babies born this year will live to 100
Baku, March 29 (AZERTAC). One in three babies born this year will live to the age of 100, official projections have concluded.
Tens of thousands of extra people will live to see in the milestone, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The official projections on “mortality”, published on Monday, suggested that “at every age”, females had more chance of reaching their 100th birthdays than males did.
The projections said that a third of babies born in 2012 would live to be 100, with nearly 40 per cent of baby girls compared to just under a third of baby boys reaching the milestone.
The ONS report, titled "What Are The Chances Of Surviving To Age 100?", also suggests more people will live to get a card through the post from the Monarch of the day.
More than 95,000 people aged 65 in 2012 are expected to celebrate their 100th birthday in 2047.
Researchers found that only 10 per cent of men aged 65 this year and 14 per cent of women the same age would reach this milestone.
According to the latest figures there are 826,000 babies aged under one year in Britain, with 423,000 being male and 403,000 female.
Of these, 135,000 men and 156,000 women, who were born in 2012, are expected to still be alive by the age of 100, the ONS said.
Meanwhile of the 395,000 men and 417,000 women aged 65 this year, 10 per cent of men and 14 per cent of women respectively will reach 100.
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