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This page supplements the list of oldest people by nation, which itemizes the oldest people ever, by country. This page lists the oldest people currently alive by country.
Comprehensive birth registration is largely a 20th century phenomenon,[citation needed] so records establishing human longevity are necessarily fragmentary. The earliest comprehensive recordkeeping systems arose in Europe,[citation needed] which makes the continent the only place that the lifespans of people born in the 19th century can be documented and verified to the standards of modern scientific research.[citation needed] For example, the United Kingdom organized a central recordkeeping system for England and Wales in 1837,[citation needed] making it compulsory by 1874.[citation needed]
Mathematically, very few people born in the 20th century have yet had an opportunity to reach or surpass the age of 110. This is the age recognized by longevity researchers as the marker of supercentenarian status.[citation needed] Some of the people listed below may be recognized by their own nation as having attained an age of 110 years or greater, but their lifespan may not yet have been documented and verified sufficiently for them to be denominated a supercentenarian by the standards of modern longevity research.
This page lists the "recordholders" for various countries, to the extent that they can be established[by whom?] thus far. Those born in one country but who later moved to another are specifically noted.
National records
Under 110 Verified supercentenarian Pending supercentenarian Unverified supercentenarian
Country Name Sex Birth date Age as of 22 November 2011 Algeria Marcelle Narbonne[a] (lives in France) F 25 March 1898 [1] 113 years, 242 daysAntigua and Barbuda Irene Carlos F 23 January 1902 [2][3] 109 years, 303 daysAustralia Eva McConnell F 5 May 1901 [1] 110 years, 201 daysAustria Hermine Nistler F 24 December 1900 [1] 110 years, 333 daysBarbados James Sisnett M 22 February 1900 [1] 111 years, 273 daysEmily Clarke F ≥[4] 108 years, 172 daysBelgium Germaine Degueldre F 26 September 1900 [1] 111 years, 57 daysJan Goossenaerts M 30 October 1900 [1] 111 years, 23 daysBolivia Helena López viuda de Sánchez F ≥[5] 111 years, 312 daysBotswana Kebuang Tsebe F 1 January 1902 [6] 109 years, 325 daysBrazil Bráulio Celestino M 29 March 1901 [7] 110 years, 238 daysBulgaria Anonymous M 1900 ≥[8] 111 years, 123 daysCanada Sum Ying Fung (born in China) F 27 January 1899 [9] 112 years, 299 daysCroatia Ljubica Lončar F 7 April 1905 [10][11] 106 years, 229 daysCuraçao Maria Samson-Leer F 1 February 1906 [12][13] 105 years, 294 daysCzech Republic Evangelia Čarasová (born in Greece) F 15 February 1904 [14][15] 107 years, 280 daysMarie Fišerová F 27 November 1904 [16][15] 106 years, 360 daysAnonymous M 1905 ≥[15] 105 years, 326 daysDenmark Dora Jensen F 27 August 1903 [17][18] 108 years, 87 daysAage Nielsen M 29 November 1904 [17] 106 years, 358 daysEstonia Maria Orutalu F 29 July 1903 [19] 108 years, 116 daysAnonymous M 31 December 1906 [20][21] 104 years, 326 daysFinland Anonymous F 1902 ≥[22] 108 years, 326 daysAnonymous M 1905 ≥[22] 105 years, 326 daysFrance Marcelle Narbonne (born in Algeria)[a] F 25 March 1898 [1] 113 years, 242 daysMarie-Thérèse Bardet F 2 June 1898 [1] 113 years, 173 daysAndré Coudrat M 9 July 1902 [23] 109 years, 136 daysGermany Karolina Gröber F 27 April 1901 [1] 110 years, 209 daysPaul Veit M 15 January 1903 [24][25] 108 years, 311 daysGreece Mersene Zohos (lives in the United States) F 16 March 1900 [26][27] 111 years, 251 daysAnonymous F 1901 ≥[28] 109 years, 326 daysAnonymous M 1901 ≥[28] 109 years, 326 daysGuyana Ismay Spooner (born in Barbados) F 27 December 1900 [29] 110 years, 330 daysHungary Gallai Rezső M 29 January 1904 [30] 107 years, 297 daysIceland Guðríður Guðbrandsdóttir F 23 May 1906 [31] 105 years, 183 daysKristján Jónsson M 22 April 1908 [32] 103 years, 214 daysIreland Mary Byrne F 14 August 1904 [33] 107 years, 100 daysLuke Dolan M 4 June 1906 [34] 105 years, 171 daysItaly Dina Manfredini (lives in the USA) F 4 April 1897 [1] 114 years, 232 daysStella Nardari-Vecchiato F 23 December 1898 [1] 112 years, 334 daysGiovanni Ligato M 18 February 1901 [1] 110 years, 277 daysJapan Chiyono Hasegawa F 20 November 1896 [1] 115 years, 2 daysJiroemon Kimura M 19 April 1897 [1] 114 years, 217 daysLatvia Anonymous (immigrant) ? 1898 ≥[35] 112 years, 326 daysAnonymous ? 1900 ≥[35] 110 years, 326 daysMauritius Marie Émilie Louise (born in Diego Garcia) F 4 January 1902 [36][37][38] 109 years, 322 daysMexico Soledad Mexia (lives in the USA) F 13 August 1899 [1] 112 years, 101 daysNetherlands Cornelis Geurtz M 4 May 1902 [39] 109 years, 202 daysAnna Goorman-Dommerholt F 16 October 1902 [40] 109 years, 37 daysNorway Kristi Øktedalen F 29 June 1902 [41] 109 years, 146 daysJakob Gunnes M 18 February 1906 [42] 105 years, 277 daysPoland Józef Kowalski[b] M 2 February 1900 [43] 111 years, 293 daysSlovenia Vida Uršič F 20 April 1903 [44] 108 years, 216 daysSpain Francisco Fernández M 24 July 1901 [45] 110 years, 121 daysFrancisca García-Torres F 13 September 1901 [45] 110 years, 70 daysSweden Rut Engström F 23 September 1902 [46] 109 years, 60 daysSven Hedberg M 13 December 1903 [47][46] 107 years, 344 daysSwitzerland Anonymous F ≥[48] 111 years, 51 daysPierre Gremion M 5 March 1902 [49][48] 109 years, 262 daysTrinidad and Tobago Subhagiya Sarran F 13 December 1901 [50][51] 109 years, 344 daysElbert Redvers Blades M 7 April 1902 [52] 109 years, 229 daysUkraine Petro Lyzan M 12 May 1900 [53] 111 years, 194 daysAntonina Tishchenko F 21 February 1901 [54][55] 110 years, 280 daysUnited Kingdom Violet Wood F 2 September 1899 [1] 112 years, 81 daysRev. Reg Dean M 4 November 1902 [56] 109 years, 18 daysUnited States Besse Cooper F 26 August 1896 [1] 115 years, 88 daysShelby Harris M 31 March 1901 [1] 110 years, 236 daysa^ Narbonne was a native of French Algeria. It is now Algeria.
b^ Kowalski was a native of Smerekivka/Wicyń, which had then been a part of Austria-Hungary, later a part of Poland; it is presently located in the Ukraine.Territorial recordholders
Country Territory Name Sex Birth date Age as of 22 November 2011 Denmark Faroe Islands Anonymous M 1908 ≥[57][58] 102 years, 326 daysAnonymous F 1909 ≥[57] 101 years, 326 daysGreenland Agnethe Fencker F 24 Oct 1910 [59][60] 101 years, 29 daysFrance Réunion Marie Diaz (born in Algeria) F 22 February 1898 [61] 113 years, 273 daysUnited Kingdom Saint Helena Hilda Clingham F 23 July 1910 [62] 101 years, 122 daysUnited States Puerto Rico Antonia Gerena Rivera F 19 May 1900 [1] 111 years, 187 daysReferences
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