Ageing UK

• Every hour life expectancy in Britain rises by another 16 minutes.
• A man of 60 can expect to live for another 20.5 years and a woman of teh same age for 23.6 years.
• The percentage of the population aged under 16 bhas been declining since 1995 and for the first time ever, has dropped below the percentage of the population of state pensionable age.
• There were more then 11 million people over state pension age in 2005.
• The fastest growing group are those aged 80 years and over and constitute 4.5 % of the total population. This age group increased by over 1.1 million between 1981 and 2007.
• The mortality rate for the population aged over 75 has fallen from 137 deaths per thousand in 1911 - 1915, to 83 deaths per thousand in 2006 - 2007.
• There are around 9,000 centenarians in the UK, a 90 fold increase since 1911.
• At the currrent rate of expansion teh UK's centenarian population could reach over 40,000 by 2031.
• The annual number of deaths fell to 571,000 in 2007 from 599,000 in 2001.
• In 2007 the UK,s total fertility rate was 1.9 children per woman below the replacement rate of 2.10.