Statistics Sweden has predicted that eleven percent of girls born in 2012 will live to be older than 100, with about six percent of boys reaching the same age. A third of Swedes alive today will be older than 90 when they die, but Statistics Sweden now say that by 2060, half of Swedes will reach the age bracket.
As time progresses, more and more Swedes will also live past the century-mark, with more than one in ten girls reaching 100. In the same time frame, six percent of boys born today will reach that age.
The statisticians explain the population pick-up rate with immigration and birth rates. The large number of children born around 1990 means there will be another baby boom around 2020 when that generation start having families.
Source: TT/The Local/at
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