Living national longevity recordholders

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In supplement to the national longevity recordholders page, this page is for the oldest people currently still alive in a certain country. As comprehensive birth registration largely came into being in the 20th century and no one born in that century has yet reached supercentenarian age, records are necessarily fragmentary. The earliest comprehensive recordkeeping systems arose in Europe, the only place that any persons born in the 19th century can be documented above the level of longevity myths. For example, the UK organized a central recordkeeping system for England and Wales in 1837, which was compulsory by 1874.

This article gives the recordholders for various countries to the extent that they have been established. Each country covered has produced at least one person who reached the age of 110 or more. Most recordholders are female with male recordholders being noted. Those born in one country who moved to another are identified. Countries are listed in order of the age of the present recordholder.

This article uses links to those who have biographies and boldfaces the names of those who do not. It should not be assumed that every person mentioned in an article therefore merits his or her own article.

For a global overview of living longevity recordholders see the supercentenarian article, for the need to treat exaggerated claims with skepticism given the extreme documented mortality curves see the longevity myths article. For the oldest people ever in a certain country: see national longevity recordholders.

[edit] Argentina

[edit] Australia

Myra Nicholson holds the living record (born December 14, 1894).

Frank Scarrabelotti holds the living male record (born August 4, 1897).

[edit] Austria

Hermina Dunz (born February 24, 1898) of Graz holds the overall record.

Franz Rohrer (born May 23, 1901) of Lebring holds the male record.

[edit] Belgium

Irma Van de Voorde-Notteboom (born 2 November 1897) is the oldest inhabitant.

[edit] Brazil

[edit] Bulgaria

[edit] Canada

Julie Winnefred Bertrand is the oldest living Canadian and also the world's oldest living woman, born September 16, 1891.

Victor Lloyd Clemett is the oldest living Canadian male, born December 10, 1899.

[edit] China

[edit] Croatia

[edit] Czechia

Marie Kraslova, born November 13, 1898, is the oldest living Czech.

[edit] Denmark

Currently the oldest female is an 107-year-old (born in 1898) from Odense who wants to remain anonymous.

Torkil Dressø (born March 29, 1899) is the oldest living native Danish male. He is also the last living Danish-born male born in the 19th century.

[edit] Ecuador

[edit] Finland

Aarne Arvonen (born August 4, 1897) holds the overall record.

[edit] France

Marie-Simone Capony is the doyenne de France, born March 14, 1894.

Aimé Avignon is the doyen de France, born February 2, 1897.

[edit] Germany

Irmgard von Stephani (born September 20, 1895) holds the record for the oldest living native German.

Robert Meier (born March 10, 1897) holds the male record.

[edit] Greece

[edit] Italy

Lorenza Dotta-Dughera is the oldest living resident, born August 7, 1894.

The oldest living Italian man is Antonio Pierro, born February 22, 1896 in Italy, but living in the U.S.

[edit] Japan

Yone Minagawa is the oldest living person, born January 4, 1893.

Tomoji Tanabe holds the male record, born September 18, 1895.

[edit] Mexico

[edit] Netherlands

Grietje Jansen-Anker (born 12 September 1897) holds the overall record.

Johannes Leendert van der Giessen (born 17 December 1899) holds the male record. He is also the last living Dutchman born in the 19th century.

[edit] New Zealand

UK-born Florence Finch (born 22 December 1893), who celebrated her 112th birthday in 2005, holds the record.

[edit] Norway

Gunda Harangen (born 28 December 1898) of Kongsberg is holding the record.

Jørgen Bernhard Rustad (born 12 August 1900) of Gjøvik is the oldest living male currently.

[edit] Poland

[edit] Portugal

Maria de Jesus is the oldest living Portuguese person, born September 10, 1893. She is also the oldest living European after the death of the French supercentenarian Camille Loiseau in august 2006.

Augusto Oliveira Moreira (born October 6, 1896) is the oldest living Portuguese male.