An adviser to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has predicted that by the time today's 12-year-old boys reach the age of 30, they should be able to enjoy a life expectancy of just over 87 years.
This means they will be matching the life expectancy of their female counterparts or the first time.
And they may even outlive females born at the same time soon after, according to Professor Leslie Mayhew, a statistician at City University, London.
Professor Mayhew believes that men's increasingly healthy lifestyles, falling smoking rates and decreasing number of deaths from heart attacks will bring their life expectancy in line with that of women.
In an interview with the Sunday Times, he said: 'There has been a huge decline in the numbers working in heavy industry, far fewer males smoke than before and there is much better treatment for heart disease, which tends to affect more males than females.'
Figures from the British Heart Foundation show that one in five male deaths and one in eight female deaths in 2009 were from coronary heart disease.
Source: www.netdoctor.co.uk
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