AT A GLANCE

• Experts have predicted more than a third of babies born this year will live until the ago of 100

• But researchers from the Office for National Statistics point out that living longer isn’t necessarily good news, newborn children are likely to be paying off their student loan until 52, their mortgage until 61, and have to remain in work until 70

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More than a third of babies born this year will live until the age of 100, experts have predicted.

Some 156,000 girls and 135,000 boys can expect a telegram from the monarch thanks to improved standards of living and medical advances.

But researchers from the Office for National Statistics point out that living longer isn’t necessarily good news.

 

Newborn children are likely to be paying off their student loan until 52, their mortgage until 61, and have to remain in work until 70.

And many centenarians may have very lonely existences if they outlive close friends and family.

In total 39 per cent of the baby girls born this year are predicted to live until at least 100 compared to just 10 per cent of 80-year olds, who were born in 1932.

 

And 32 per cent of the boys born this year will become centenarians in comparison to just 9.5 per cent of 80 year old men.

Women tend to outlive men regardless of when or where they are born and scientists think this is due to differences in their biology.