While
the number of centenarians is on the rise, there's no guarantee you and your spouse will both reach your late 90s.
Estimates show
the number of centenarians in the world will approach 3.2 million by 2050, an 18-fold increase compared with the last century.
The number of centenarians has spiked by nearly 44 percent in recent years.
James Vaupel of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany, says
the number of centenarians in many industrialized nations is doubling every decade.
The number of centenarians living in the UK was 13,350 in 2012, up 73 % compared with 2002 figures.
Not exact matches
They do not have a higher
number than average
of centenarians (if any) and do not apparently have higher than (even post 50 year old to account for high infant death rate) average lifespans.
They do not have a higher
number than average
of centenarians (if any) and do not have higher than (even post 50 year old to account for high infant death rate) average lifespans.