![]() ![]() Only 30% of women in their 70s were widows in 2016, compared to 49% in 1991. Increases in life expectancy between 19 mean that more men survived into their 70s. Marriage is on the increase, but so is divorce ![]() The General Household Survey reported that 18% were smokers in 1990 to 1991, dropping to 9% in 2016 ( Opinions and Lifestyle Survey). People in their 70s in Great Britain are less likely to smoke than in the past. Increases in life expectancy have been linked to reductions in smoking and circulatory disease. For women this is 17.3 years, up from 14.3 years in 1990. The gap in life expectancy (the average years of life remaining) between men and women in the UK has narrowed, with life expectancy at age 70 increasing by 39% for men between 19, and by 21% for women.īased on mortality patterns in 2016, men aged 70 can now expect to live for a further 15.3 years, up from 11.0 years in 1990. Having got there, today’s 70-year-olds also live for longer than their predecessors, particularly men. With increases in survival have come increases in life expectancy: life expectancy at birth for women in England and Wales pushed through the 70 age barrier in 1950, while men had to wait until 1977, almost three decades later. Only 58% of the 957,782 babies born in England and Wales in 1920 (turning 70 in 1990) survived to age 70, compared to 78% of the 820,719 babies born in 1946 (turning 70 in 2016). This is because survival was far better for the post-World War 2 baby boom generation (born 1946) than those born following the World War 1 baby-boom (born 1920). The number of people in their 70s in the UK increased from 4 million to 5 million between 19. They have lived through a period of unprecedented economic, social, cultural and technological change.īabies born earlier, during the baby boom that followed World War 1 lived through the Great Depression, were young adults during World War 2, and turned 70 in the early 1990s, just as recession hit the UK.ĭespite there being fewer than three decades between these generations, there are differences in life expectancy, marital status, childbearing, and employment. They were the first to benefit from 20th century developments such as ‘cradle to grave welfare’. The post-World War 2 baby boom generation turned 70 in 2016. ![]()
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