Census Bureau News -- Centenarians: 2010

2010 Census Report Shows More Than 80 Percent of Centenarians are Women

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 2010 Census counted 53,364 people age 100 and older in the United States, and they were overwhelmingly female. For every 100 centenarian women, there were only 20.7 centenarian men.

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These figures come from a special report released today based on the 2010 Census that provides a portrait of the centenarian population in the United States describing their age, sex, race, Hispanic origin and living arrangement characteristics. The report, Centenarians: 2010, also compares centenarians with other age groups in the older population.