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The number of centenarians living in Alicante Province has gone up by 30 percent over the last five years according to the National Statistics Institute. There are now 285 people aged 100 or over, with that figure set to rise to nearly 600 by 2021, and close to a thousand in nine years time.

Alicante Province residents aged 65 and over account for 20 percent of the one point eight million population, with that percentage predicted to go over 30 percent by 2029.