A pension/retirement-plan company in the UK has analyzed its database and cross-checked it with the number of folk popping-their-clogs and come up with a stat that 50% of 30 year olds today could live to 100. The Telegraph reports:
As many as half of all 30 year olds alive in Britain today could live to be 100, according to pension buy-out expert Paternoster.
The startling statistic is based on analysis of data derived from around 600,000 people on defined benefit pensions schemes, as well as general UK population data.
Paternoster chief executive Mark Wood said: “We look at the rate at which people in pension schemes have died in the last 20 years and the rate at which they are likely to die in the future.”
So, for the other half of you – you might as well keep banging the pills, downing the booze and hoovering the bugle.
Half of 30-year olds may live to 100, study says – Telegraph
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