Living national longevity recordholders
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In supplement to the national longevity recordholders page, which is for the oldest people ever in a certain country, 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 United Kingdom 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.
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, and for the need to treat exaggerated claims with skepticism given the extreme documented mortality curves, see the longevity myths article.
[edit] National records
| Country | Name | Sex | Birth | Age |
 Australia |
E. Beatrice Riley | F | October 13, 1896 | 111 years, 240 days[1] |
| John Campbell Ross | M | March 11, 1899 | 109 years, 90 days[2] | |
 Austria |
Hermina Dunz | F | February 24, 1898 | 110 years, 106 days[3] |
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Romanie Pollet | F | December 21, 1898 | 109 years, 171 days[4] |
| Jan Goossenaerts | M | October 30, 1900 | 107 years, 223 days[5] | |
 Canada |
Mary Josephine Ray (lives in the US) | F | May 17, 1895 | 113 years, 23 days[1] |
| Bessie Roffey (born in the UK) | F | March 2, 1897 | 111 years, 99 days[1] | |
 Czech Republic |
Marie Kráslová | F | November 13, 1898 | 109 years, 209 days[6][7] |
| Unidentified | M | 1902 | >105 years, 160 days[6] | |
 Denmark |
Magda Hedetoft | F | September 29, 1899 | 108 years, 254 days[8] |
| Martin Gammelgaard | M | September 29, 1901 | 106 years, 254 days[9] | |
 Estonia |
Karl Plutus | M | September 11, 1904 | 103 years, 272 days[10][11] |
 Finland |
Tyyne Mäkinen | F | November 17, 1900 | 107 years, 205 days[12] |
| Aarne Arvonen | M | August 4, 1897 | 110 years, 310 days[1] | |
 France |
Eugénie Blanchard | F | February 16, 1896 | 112 years, 114 days[1] |
 Germany |
Berta Rosenberg (lives in the US) | F | September 5, 1896 | 111 years, 278 days[1] |
 Iceland |
Thurídur Samúelsdóttir | F | June 19, 1903 | 104 years, 356 days[13] |
| Sigsteinn Pálsson | M | February 16, 1905 | 103 years, 114 days[13] | |
 Italy |
Lucia Lauria Vigna | F | March 4, 1896 | 112 years, 97 days[1] |
| Delfino Borroni | M | August 23, 1898 | 109 years, 291 days[14] | |
 Japan |
Chiyo Shiraishi | F | August 6, 1895 | 112 years, 308 days[1] |
| Tomoji Tanabe | M | September 18, 1895 | 112 years, 265 days[1] | |
 Kosovo |
Feride Bucolli | F | 1899 | >108 years, 160 days[15] |
| Sylë Tahiri | M | 1900 | >107 years, 160 days[15] | |
 Mauritius |
Marie Edith André | F | September 23, 1898 | 109 years, 260 days[16][17] |
| Wan Kaw Sang | M | December 1, 1902 | 105 years, 191 days[16] | |
 Moldova |
Elena Bord(e)ian | F | April 13, 1898 | 110 years, 57 days[18] |
 Netherlands |
Grietje Jansen-Anker | F | September 12, 1897 | 110 years, 271 days[1] |
| Adrianus van der Vaart | M | December 26, 1901 | 106 years, 166 days[19] | |
 North Korea |
Choe Pu Yong | F | November 2, 1897 | 110 years, 220 days[20] |
 Norway |
Gunda Harangen | F | December 28, 1898 | 109 years, 164 days[21] |
| Jørgen Bernhard Rustad | M | August 12, 1900 | 107 years, 302 days[22] | |
 Poland |
Ludwika Kosztyła | F | August 3, 1897 | 110 years, 311 days[23] |
| Józef Kowalski | M | February 2, 1900 | 108 years, 128 days[24] | |
 Portugal |
Maria de Jesus | F | September 10, 1893 | 114 years, 273 days[1] |
| Augusto Oliveira Moreira | M | October 6, 1896 | 111 years, 247 days[1] | |
 Slovenia |
Katarina Marinič | F | October 30, 1899 | 108 years, 223 days[25] |
 Spain |
Manuela Fernández-Fojaco | F | June 18, 1895 | 112 years, 357 days[1] |
| Miguel Suárez Orejas | M | September 23, 1899 | 108 years, 260 days[26] | |
 Sweden |
Saro Dursun | F | June 1, 1899 | 109 years, 8 days[27][28] |
| Rut Mikaelsson | F | October 16, 1899 | 108 years, 237 days[29] | |
| Herner Mauritz Larsson | M | March 21, 1902 | 106 years, 80 days[30][31][32] | |
 Switzerland |
Rosa Rein | F | March 24, 1897 | 111 years, 77 days[33] |
| Pierre Gremion | M | March 5, 1902 | 106 years, 96 days[34] | |
 United Kingdom |
Florrie Baldwin | F | March 31, 1896 | 112 years, 70 days[1] |
| Henry Allingham | M | June 6, 1896 | 112 years, 3 days[1] | |
 United States |
Edna Parker | F | April 20, 1893 | 115 years, 50 days[1] |
| George Rene Francis | M | June 6, 1896 | 112 years, 3 days[1] |
[edit] Territorial records
| Territory | Name | Sex | Birth | Age |
 Anguilla (United Kingdom) |
Victoria Charles | F | December 2, 1904 | 103 years, 190 days[35] |
 Greenland (Denmark) |
Charlotte Petersen | F | July 18, 1907 | 100 years, 327 days[36] |
| Guadeloupe (France) |
Eugénie Blanchard | F | February 16, 1896 | 112 years, 114 days[1] |
| New Caledonia (France) |
Marthe Page | F | April 9, 1904 | 104 years, 61 days[37] |
 Scotland (United Kingdom) |
Bob Taggart | M | June 28, 1900 | 107 years, 347 days[38] |
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Validated Living Supercentenarians
- ^ News Report on John Campbell Ross' 109th birthday
- ^ News Report on Hermina Dunz' 110th birthday (German)
- ^ News Report on Romaine Pollet's newly acquired status as oldest Belgian person (French)
- ^ News Report on Jan Goossenaerts' 107th birthday (Dutch)
- ^ a b Report on Czech Centenarians (Czech)
- ^ Report on Marie Kráslová's 109th birthday (Czech)
- ^ Danish Population Statistics
- ^ Report on Martin Gammelgaard (Danish)
- ^ News report on Karl Plutus' 100th birthday (Estonian)
- ^ News report on Karl Plutus' 103rd birthday (Estonian)
- ^ Report on Tyyne Mäkinen's 107th birthday (Finnish)
- ^ a b Report on Iceland's oldest people
- ^ Biography of Delfino Borroni (Italian)
- ^ a b Report on Kosovo's Oldest People
- ^ a b Republic of Mauritius' List of Centenarians
- ^ News Report on Marie Edith André's 109th birthday
- ^ Report on Elena Bord(e)ian (Romanian)
- ^ News report on Adrianus van der Vaart becoming oldest man in the Netherlands (Dutch)
- ^ Report on Choe Pu Yong's 110th birthday
- ^ News Report on Gunda Harangen's 109th birthday (Norwegian)
- ^ News Report on Jørgen Bernhard Rustad's 107th birthday (Norwegian)
- ^ News Report on Ludwika Kosztyła's 110th birthday (Polish)
- ^ News Report on Józef Kowalski's 108th birthday (Polish)
- ^ News Report on Katarina Marinič's 108th birthday (Slovene)
- ^ Report on Miguel Suárez Orejas at age 108 (Spanish)
- ^ News report on the oldest in Sweden (Swedish)
- ^ Born in Turkey, but moved to Sweden.
- ^ "News report on Rut Mikaelsson becoming oldest in Sweden (Swedish)
- ^ News Report on the death of Bengt Helldal (Swedish)
- ^ Report on the oldest and second-oldest in Sweden (Swedish)
- ^ Report on Herner Mauritz Larsson at age 106 (Swedish)
- ^ News Report on Rosa Rein's 111th birthday
- ^ News Report on Pierre Gremion's 106th birthday (French)
- ^ News Report on Victoria Charles' 103rd birthday
- ^ Report on Charlotte Petersen's 100th birthday (link inactive as of February 25, 2008)
- ^ Report on Marthe Page becoming New Caledonia's oldest person
- ^ News Report on Bob Taggart's 107th birthday
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