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Despite coronavirus, the number of people aged 100 years and over in the UK rose to its highest ever level in 2020, the Office for National Statistics says.

Nearly half of those 15,100 centenarians had their 100th birthday last year.

So why did so many get a letter from the Queen in 2020?

They would have been born in 1920, during a baby boom after the end of World War One.

In 1919-20, there were 45% more births than the year before and thanks to improvements in living standards and health over the last century, many of them have been lucky enough to live to very old ages.

But it's a different picture in people in their 90s - this population is still growing, but much more slowly, reflecting lower birth numbers after the post-WW1 peak.

The pandemic also had an impact, hitting older age groups harder than younger ones.

Women, on average, live longer than men - and there are around twice as many women than men in their 90s, and four times as many women aged 100 and over.

Men are catching up though.

Over time, less smoking and better working conditions have meant men living longer.

Even 20 years ago, the gap between female and male life expectancy was much greater.

There were eight times as many female centenarians to every male back then.