List of oldest living people by nation

This page supplements the list of oldest people by nation, which itemizes the oldest people by country. This page lists the oldest people confirmed to be alive in the last year, by country.

Comprehensive birth registration is largely a 20th-century phenomenon, so records establishing human longevity are necessarily fragmentary. The earliest comprehensive recordkeeping systems arose in Europe 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. For example, the United Kingdom organized a central recordkeeping system for England and Wales in 1837, making it compulsory by 1874.[1]

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. 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 list contains the oldest woman and/or man in a country under the following criteria:

Those born in one country but who later moved to another are specifically noted.

National records

      Under 110        Verified[2][3] supercentenarian        Pending[4] supercentenarian        Unverified supercentenarian

Country Name Sex Reported birth date Reported age as of 30 April 2015 Age verified
Australia Ethel Farrell (born in India) F 27 November 1902 112 years, 154 days[2] Yes
Alfred Date M 8 November 1905 109 years, 173 days[5]
Belgium Aime Wille M 1 March 1909 106 years, 60 days[6]
Brazil Álida Victória Grubba Rudge F 10 July 1903 111 years, 294 days[4] Pending
Cape Verde Maria Veiga Amado F 9 October 1905 109 years, 203 days[7][8][9]
Czech Republic Edith Kaufmann (lives in the United Kingdom) F 12 December 1903 111 years, 139 days[4] Pending
Denmark Signe Højer F 1 November 1905 109 years, 180 days[10][11]
Georg Ingwersen Jensen M 14 June 1906 108 years, 320 days[10]
Estonia Elle Mälberg F 10 April 1907 108 years, 20 days[12]
Arved Tamm M 31 January 1910 105 years, 89 days[13]
France Olympe Amaury F 19 June 1901 113 years, 315 days[2] Yes
Germany Charlotte Klamroth F 18 August 1903 111 years, 255 days[2] Yes
Gustav Gerneth M 15 October 1905 109 years, 197 days[14]
Guyana Alice Alberta Crawford F 27 May 1906 108 years, 338 days[15]
Mortimer Lamazon M 22 July 1906 108 years, 282 days[16]
Iceland Guðríður Guðbrandsdóttir F 23 May 1906 108 years, 342 days[17][18]
Georg Ólafsson M 26 March 1909 106 years, 35 days[19][20][21][22]
Ireland Kathleen Snavely (lives in the USA) F 16 February 1902 113 years, 73 days[2] Yes
Italy Emma Morano-Martinuzzi F 29 November 1899 115 years, 152 days[2] Yes
Salvatore Caruso M 2 November 1905 109 years, 179 days[23]
Jamaica Violet Brown F 10 March 1900 115 years, 51 days[2] Yes
Japan Nabi Tajima F 4 August 1900 114 years, 269 days[2] Yes
Sakari Momoi M 5 February 1903 112 years, 84 days[2] Yes
Mexico Dominga Velasco (lives in the USA) F 12 May 1901 113 years, 353 days[2] Yes
Moldova Goldie Steinberg (lives in the USA) F 30 October 1900 114 years, 182 days[2] Yes
Netherlands Nellij H.M. de Vries-Lammerts F 5 May 1905 109 years, 360 days[24]
Norway Elisabet Ekenæs F 26 December 1904 110 years, 125 days[25] No
Carl Falck M 27 May 1907 107 years, 338 days[25]
Poland Jadwiga Młynek F 1 October 1905 109 years, 211 days[26]
Portugal Manuel Rafael dos Santos M 23 December 1905 109 years, 128 days[27]
Romania Maria Tudor F 8 September 1903 111 years, 234 days[28] No
Serbia Jelisaveta Veljković Cenka F 18 July 1904 110 years, 286 days[29] No
Seychelles Nancy Marie F 26 January 1909 106 years, 94 days[30][31]
Spain Ana María Vela Rubio F 29 October 1901 113 years, 183 days[2] Yes
Suriname Feli Noi F 5 December 1903 111 years, 146 days[32] No
United Kingdom Gladys Hooper F 18 January 1903 112 years, 102 days[2] Yes
United States Jeralean Talley F 23 May 1899 115 years, 342 days[3] Yes
Wash Wesley M 21 January 1904 111 years, 99 days[4] Pending

Territorial recordholders

Country Territory Name Sex Birth date Age as of 30 April 2015 Age verified
Denmark Faroe Islands Theodor Thomassen M 28 October 1908 106 years, 184 days[33]
Netherlands Curaçao Maria Samson-Leer F 1 February 1906 109 years, 88 days[34][35][36][37][38]
United Kingdom British Virgin Islands Robelteen Smith F 12 August 1908 106 years, 261 days[39]
Cayman Islands Julia Hydes F 25 January 1909 106 years, 95 days[40][41]
United States Puerto Rico Antonia Gerena Rivera (lives in the USA) F 19 May 1900 114 years, 346 days[2] Yes
US Virgin Islands Ursula Krigger F 22 April 1902 113 years, 8 days[4] Pending

References

  1. ↑ Guinness Book of Records. 1978 Edition.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 2.9 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 "Validated Living Supercentenarians". Gerontology Research Group.
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  12. ↑ "Oldest living Estonian turns 108". Eesti Rahvusringhääling. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 22 April 2015.
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  19. ↑ Elstu íslensku karlarnir á lífi
  20. ↑ Georg Ólafsson 104 ára (Icelandic)
  21. ↑ Andlát: Gissur Ólafur Erlingsson (Icelandic)
  22. ↑ Georg Breiðfjörð Ólafsson er 106 ára í dag (Icelandic)
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  24. ↑ (Dutch)
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  26. ↑ Z życzeniami u seniorów (Polish)
  27. ↑ Manuel Rafael dos Santos, o homem mais velho de Portugal (Portuguese)
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  33. ↑ Theodor Thomassen er elsti føroyingur nakrantíð (Faroese)
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  40. ↑ "At 105, cultural icon Aunt Julia continues to shine". The Cayman Reporter. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  41. ↑ http://www.compasscayman.com/story.aspx?id=148761