a seaside town  and a london borough are bucking a nationwide trend of ageing which will see the average age of the population hit its forties by 2037 towns and cities across the country are getting older, thanks to people living longer, with half of those born after 2007 expected to live to over 100 while the average age of the population will be 43 in 2037, up from 36 in 1992, the the london borough of barking and dagenham, and the seaside town of bournemouth in dorset, populations are getting younger in barking, the average age is set to drop from 34 to 334 during the 45 year period  thanks to rising birth rates and the influx of young londoners with families looking to get on the housing ladder by 2037, a quarter of all residents in the borough will be under 16 years old the county of dorset has one of the oldest populations in the uk   christchurch where almost 31 per cent of the population are pensioners  and one of the few places where the population is getting younger   bournemouth where the age is due to drop from 413 to 41 bournemouth (pictured) is one of only two places in the uk where the age of the population is due to drop by 2037  the fastest ageing areas were in rural scotland where eilean siar (pictured) in the western isles's average age of 385 is set to increase to 557   a 31 per cent increase  the past decade has seen an influx of young professionals and migrants to the seaside town britain's towns and cities are getting older as a national trend of ageing is set to put the uk's average age at 43  the fastest ageing areas were in rural scotland where eilean siar in the western isles's average age of 385 is set to increase to 557    a 31 per cent increase it will mean there will be fewer than one in seven will be under 16 by 2037 inverclyde's population will age by 53 years while clackmannanshire, the third fastest ageing location, will increase from a median of 354 to 495 experts are now warning that the rapidly ageing populations in rural scotland could mean services such as doctors and schools come under threat professor robert wright, a population expert at strathclyde university, told the independent:  'the issue is that depopulation and rapid population ageing of more remote regions means that it will become too expensive to provide services needed by an ageing population basically, people will need to move to receive them' the oldest parts towns and cities in britain will be rother in sussex, and north norfolk, where the median age will exceed 57 by 2037 in contrast, the areas of the uk which are slowest to age include southampton, bristol, nottingham and norwich location                                1992            2037  eilean siar (western isles)   385             557  inverclyde                             359             512  clackmannanshire                354            495  rutland                                 37                517  suffolk coastal                     393             55  shetland islands                   347             479  north ayrshire                      359             492  cherwell                               328             448  gosport                                 335             457  tamworth                              323             440  location                             1992            2037  barking and dagenham       34              334  bournemouth                       413            41  southampton                       339            341  bristol                                   342           345  nottingham                          315            319  norwich                                342            355  coventry                              337            35  redbridge                            353            367  manchester                          307            323  brighton and hove               369            387 
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general population trend will normally see average age increase by 2037 . within 45 years, population in inverclyde will age by 53 years to 512 . but in london the average age in barking will have dropped from 34 to 334 . the seaside town of bournemouth population will decrease from 413 to 41 . town with the oldest population in the uk is christchurch in dorset 