Number of UK adults aged 100 hit record high last year 

Wales had the highest proportion of both male and female centenarians

The figures show there were 7,590 100-year-olds in the UK in 2020 (PA)

The UK’s elderly population has reached a record high and the number of adults aged 100 has rocketed by 52%, figures show.

The number of UK adults aged 100 and over reached the highest ever level of 15,120 in 2020, an increase of almost a fifth from the year before, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates.