Sepertiga Bayi Kelahiran 2012 Akan Hidup Satu Abad

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REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, LONDON -- Sepertiga bayi yang lahir pada 2012 di dataran Inggris Raya, diprediksi akan hidup hingga usia 100 tahun. Prediksi ini berdasarkan proyeksi usia hidup manusia di masa depan.

Data dari Kantor Statistik Nasional Inggris menyebutkan, jumlah penduduk berusia 100 tahun lebih meningkat tajam beberapa dekade terakhir. Pada 1961 silam misalnya, jumlah bayi yang hidup hingga usai 100 tahun hanya berkisar 600 orang. Tapi pada 2010 lalu, jumlahnya meroket menjadi 13 ribu jiwa.

Tahun ini saja, jumlah penduduk berusia satu abad di Inggris diperkirakan mencapai 14.500 orang. Pada 2035 mendatang, jumlahnya diramalkan meningkat hingga 100 ribu orang. Sebagian besar penduduk berusia panjang tersebut adalah wanita.

"Wanita memiliki tingkat harapan hidup lebih tinggi dibanding pria pada setiap jenjang usia," kata seorang peneliti dari kantor statistik seperti dilansir BBC.

Pada 2012, sebanyak 135 ribu bayi laki-laki dan 156 ribu bayi perempuan dilahirkan di negeri Ratu Elizabeth itu. Dengan rencana Kementerian Kesehatan Inggris untuk melipatgandakan anggaran bagi penelitian penanggulangan penyakit dementia, sepertiga dari keseluruhan bayi-bayi tersebut diperkirakan akan bertahan hidup hingga usia satu abad.
Number of Britons to reach 100 years of age hits 10,000
By Steve Doughty


The number of people who have reached the age of 100 has broken the 10,000 barrier for the first time, figures showed yesterday.
Analysts have put the booming figures of the very elderly down to major improvements over past decades in medical treatment, hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, housing and living standards.
Data from the Office for National Statistics puts the count of centenarians in England and Wales last year at 9,640, a level far ahead of any recorded in the past.

Increasingly common: The 100th birthday card centenarians get from the Queen

The rate of increase of numbers of very old people is now such that the total is certain to have passed 10,000.
When the centenarians themselves were born into the Edwardian age there were reckoned to be just 100 people in England and Wales who had reached the age of 100.
The spread of good occupational pensions since the 1950s - a factor in decline since Labour taxed pension funds and secure final-salary pensions began to disappear - has also helped many to live longer lives, according to analysts.

They add that numbers of the very oldest are growing fast because of the rapid climb in survival rates among people over 80.

The new figures show that there were 368,150 people aged over 90 in England and Wales last year. Some 440 people had reached the age of 105.
Britain is now believed to rank high up international tables of long life, with only the U.S., Japan and France thought to have more centenarians.
French and American long life are often linked to high farm populations in the early years of the last century and good medical care for the elderly.
Long life in Japan is attributed to diets rich in fish and low in fats, and a society in which the elderly work deep into old age and are cared for by extended families.
Among our centenarians, the great majority were women: 8,360 versus 1,280 men.
However, numbers of males who survive to 100 have increased at twice the rate of women over the past decade - possibly because men born after 1900 escaped the dangers of the First World War trenches.