There are now almost 14 000 people who are aged over 100.
A few other facts:Centenarians still only represent 0.2% of the total population.
Male centenarians in 2021 had outlived their life expectancy at birth by four decades and female centenarians by three decades.
Two in five centenarians lived alone; one in five lived in private households with other people; the remaining two in five lived in a communal establishment.
A higher proportion of male centenarians were married than female centenarians; this is because of the longer life expectancy of females and because men, on average, marry women slightly younger than themselves.
Investigate the map yourself here. One of the areas with a higher than average percentage of centenarians is local to me: the North Norfolk coast.
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