这篇雅思阅读材料的主要内容是,英国劳动保障部预计将会有五分之一的英国人庆祝他们的百岁生日,英国超过百岁的老人已经超过千万。这都是由于英国人的人均寿命得到了延长的关系。
Ministers say people should prepare to spend more than a third of their lives in retirement due to the staggering rise in life expectancy.
In the first official projection of its kind, the Department for Work and Pensions today forecasts that almost a fifth of Britons will celebrate their 100th birthday.
Of the 17 per cent of the population who will become centenarians, about three million are under the age of 16, and 5.5 million are aged between 16 and 50.
The statistics show that there are 1.3 million 51 to 65 year-olds who are likely to get their royal telegram, along with 875,000 people who have already retired.
In total, about half a million people a year will be celebrating their 100th birthday by 2066, compared with about 10,000 now. Nearly 8,000 of them will reach their 110th birthday.
Last night, Steve Webb, the pensions minister, urged workers to begin saving for their retirements as soon as possible. Mr Webb is trying to introduce significant reforms to the pensions system. These staggering figures really bring home how important it is to plan ahead for our later lives, he said. Many millions of us will be spending around a third of our lives or more in retirement.
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