The 100 club: U.S. centenarians are set to quadruple by 2054

The 100 club: U.S. centenarians are set to quadruple by 2054
chartr, by U.S. Census Bureau; 1/12/24
... As life expectancies increase and birth rates decline, the US is anticipated to trend older in the coming decades, with the median age already reaching a record high of 38.9 in 2022. Zooming out, the global population is generally aging at a much faster pace too. Indeed, in 2020, the number of people aged 60+ outnumbered under-5s, and there are an estimated 772k centenarians the world over at present.