An interactive tool has given a fascinating insight into life expectancy – because official figures showed that improvements delayed.
The Office for National Statistics has produced an online gadget that estimates how long you have left based on your current age and gender.
It uses new projections of the statistics body, which suggests that a baby boy was born in 2023 Expect to live on average up to 86.7 years.
Girls still have a longer expected lifespan of 90 years, although the gap is narrowed.
Of the 2047 -cohort of boys, they are expected to live on average up to 89.3 and 92.2 for girls.
That is a year lower for men and six months lower than the us Penciled on the basis of 2020 projections – as a result of less progress that is made on mortality than hoped.
But the data underline the incremental increase in time, with children of the nineties having a life expectancy at birth for a few years than the cohort of the 1980s.
People who were 65 years old in 2023 years old can expect on average another 19.8 years to live for men and 22.5 years for women.
That Timespan is expected to rise to 21.8 years and 24.4 years by 2047 respectively.
Of the 2023 cohort, 11.5 percent of boys and 17.9 percent of girls are seen as probably to see 100.
That will increase to 17.3 percent and 24.7 percent in 2047.
But the previous 2020-based projections estimate a 21.5 percent and 27.7 percent of those born in 2047 to become a hundred years old.
The figures also emphasize the variation between the British countries, with the life expectancy for boys born in Scotland in 2023 at 86.9 years – two years less than born in England.
The us produces estimates of life expectancy based on assumptions about future changes in death rates, based on earlier trends.
The 'most important' projection assumes that life expectancy will increase by 1.1 percent per year for men and women from zero to 90 years.
But that is lower than the 1.2 percent used in 2022 -based figures – with the us who say that 'reflects that the death rates have been slower for more than 10 years and follows advice from our death experts on future improvement rates '
The us also considers a 'low' improvement scenario of only 0.5 percent.
