Philippine Senate expected to pass own version of rewards for 100-year-old Filipinos
Gulf News - UAE
About 455,000 people worldwide have reached one hundred, according to the 2009 report of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division. The number of centenarians worldwide is expected to reach 4.1 million by 2050. Sixty nine percent of centenarians live in the more developed regions," the UN report said, adding that Japan's 76,000 people aged one hundred in 2009 will reach almost 800,000 in 2050. ,…(31 March 2012)