> The platinum jubilee generation – those turning 70 this year – have been better off than the population as a whole at every point in their adult lives.
> This really is extraordinary and unprecedented. True even when they were bringing up children and now as they enter old age.
> On top of that 85% are home owners and one in seven owns a second home
>Figure 1 shows that those members of the Platinum Jubilee generation alive today have a life expectancy of 86 for men and 88 for women. Compared to those turning 70 in 1952, that is an additional 6 years of expected lifespan for both men and women. A small but growing share are expected to make it to receive a Royal greeting on their 100th birthday. Of the Jubilee generation alive today, just over one-in-forty men and just under one-in-twenty women are expected to be alive in 2052.
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>While the generation born as the Queen came to the throne in 1952 have seen huge changes, what changes will be experienced over the lifetimes of those being born this year? The uncertainty is huge, of course. Some trends are anticipated to continue, with a staggering one-in-seven boys and one-in-five girls born this year expected to live to 100.
For a slightly more positive point included. For all that is going on we are currently living through, and have been living through, a medical revolution that is actually basically miraculous for what it is achieving and the lives it is transforming.
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> The platinum jubilee generation – those turning 70 this year – have been better off than the population as a whole at every point in their adult lives.
> This really is extraordinary and unprecedented. True even when they were bringing up children and now as they enter old age.
> On top of that 85% are home owners and one in seven owns a second home
[1](https://twitter.com/PJTheEconomist/status/1531227709241757697).
>Figure 1 shows that those members of the Platinum Jubilee generation alive today have a life expectancy of 86 for men and 88 for women. Compared to those turning 70 in 1952, that is an additional 6 years of expected lifespan for both men and women. A small but growing share are expected to make it to receive a Royal greeting on their 100th birthday. Of the Jubilee generation alive today, just over one-in-forty men and just under one-in-twenty women are expected to be alive in 2052.
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>While the generation born as the Queen came to the throne in 1952 have seen huge changes, what changes will be experienced over the lifetimes of those being born this year? The uncertainty is huge, of course. Some trends are anticipated to continue, with a staggering one-in-seven boys and one-in-five girls born this year expected to live to 100.
For a slightly more positive point included. For all that is going on we are currently living through, and have been living through, a medical revolution that is actually basically miraculous for what it is achieving and the lives it is transforming.