The Oldest Person in the World

The U.S.'s 1990 centenarian census: In 1990, the United States had classified 37,206 centenarians, with 30,947 aged 100 to 104, and 6,359 aged 105 and above. 29,405 of them were women and 7,901 of them were men.

In October of 2001, the U.S. Census Bureau reported 50,454 centenarians out of 281.4 million Americans (.01792963...) From present data, the number of centenarians worldwide is around 450,000. But, the population of centenarians is far greater than the population of supercentenarians.

Oldest living validated woman.

This is Eugénie Blanchard.

Oldest living validated man.


This is Walter Breuning, born September, 1896, at 112. He has been the oldest man in the world since July 18, 2009, at 112 years 300 days.

Oldest validated man, ever.

Shigechiyo Izumi was born on June 29, 1865, and died on February 21, 1986 12:15 GMT (120 years 237 days). He is from Japan.

Oldest validated woman, ever.

Jeanne Louise Calment was born on February 21, 1875, and died on August 4, 1997 10:45 a.m. (122 years 164 days). She is the oldest fully-validated human. However, that does not mark the end of human life expectancy. She is from France.

How old would you like to live to be?

Jeanne Calment in her 40s.

Second oldest validated woman, ever.

119 year old Sarah Knauss with her great-great-great grandchild, Bradley. Wouldn't it be nice to know your great-great-great grandparents or great-great-great grandchildren?

Total number of validated people, as of November 19, 2004.

122 (1 person)
121 (0)
120 (1 person)
119 (1 person)
118 (0)
117 (2 people)
116 (3 people)
115 (8 people)
114 (39 people) [8 alive]
113 (57 people) [4 alive]
112 (108 people) [14 alive]
111 (206 people) [25 alive]
110 (383 people) [31 alive]

Since this is as of November 19 of last year, the values are significantly off as of today.

The oldest persons in the world on May 29 for 2004, 2005, and 2006 (must see).

The oldest persons in the world in December 27, 2009, as of February 25, 2010.

1. Kama Chinen May 10, 1895 114 years 231 days
2. Mary Josephine Ray May 17, 1895 114 years 224 days
3. Neva Morris August 3, 1895 114 years 146 days
4. Maggie Renfro November 14, 1895 114 years 43 days
5. Eugenie Blanchard February 16, 1896 113 years 314 days
6. Daisey Bailey March 30, 1896 113 years 272 days
7. Florrie Baldwin March 31, 1896 113 years 271 days
8. Eunice Sanborn July 20, 1896 113 years 160 days
9. Besse Cooper August 26, 1896 113 years 123 days
10. Walter Breuning September 21, 1896 113 years 97 days
11. Chiyono Ohta November 1, 1896 113 years 56 days
12. Chiyono Hasegawa November 20, 1896 113 years 37 days
13. Venere Pizzinato-Papo November 23, 1896 113 years 34 days
14. Shige Hirooka January 16, 1897 112 years 345 days
15. Rosa Rein March 24, 1897 112 years 278 days
16. Chikao Beppu March 28, 1897 112 years 274 days
17. Mississippi Winn March 31, 1897 112 years 271 days
18. Dina Manfredini April 4, 1897 112 years 267 days
19. Mineno Yamamoto April 8, 1897 112 years 263 days
20. Jiroemon Kimura April 19, 1897 112 years 252 days
21. Komiya Miyazaki August 20, 1897 112 years 129 days
22. Florence Poe August 24, 1897 112 years 125 days
23. Ella Schuler September 5, 1897 112 years 113 days
24. Delma Kollar October 31, 1897 112 years 57 days
25. Toshi Horiya November 8, 1897 112 years 49 days
26. Leila Denmark, M.D. February 1, 1898 111 years 329 days
27. Mathilde Aussant February 27, 1898 111 years 303 days
28. Koto Uemura March 1, 1898 111 years 301 days
29. Yuki Migita March 4, 1898 111 years 298 days
30. Nyleptha Roberts March 12, 1898 111 years 290 days
31. Aki Onozaki April 1, 1898 111 years 270 days
32. Marie-Therese Bardet June 2, 1898 111 years 208 days
33. Yaoe Koda July 1, 1898 111 years 179 days
Tie. Shika Shimada July 7, 1898 111 years 173 days
Tie. Maria Luiza Nunes da Silva July 7, 1898 111 years 173 days
36. Hatsu Hirai August 15, 1898 111 years 134 days
37. Eunice Bowman August 23, 1898 111 years 126 days
38. Onie Ponder September 3, 1898 111 years 115 days
39. Louisa Shephard September 14, 1898 111 years 104 days
40. Chiyoko Asato September 20, 1898 111 years 98 days
41. Annie Turnbull September 21, 1898 111 years 97 days
42. Irma Schmidt October 7, 1898 111 years 81 days
43. J. Reeta Jones October 17, 1898 111 years 71 days
44. Hatsue Ono October 31, 1898 111 years 57 days
45. Theresia Staffler-Breitenberger November 15, 1898 111 years 42 days
46. Andresa Guerrero-Ortiz November 30, 1898 111 years 27 days
47. Stella Nardari-Vecchiato December 23, 1898 111 years 4 days
Tie. Tome Takaoka January 1, 1899 110 years 360 days
Tie. Hina Kado January 1, 1899 110 years 360 days
50. Elsie Steele January 6, 1899 110 years 355 days
51. Santa Gennari-Piroli February 23, 1899 110 years 307 days
52. Margaret Fish March 7, 1899 110 years 295 days
53. Suma Tamagawa March 14, 1899 110 years 288 days
54. Bernardina Van Dommelen March 15, 1899 110 years 287 days
55. Rosalind Hill March 30, 1899 110 years 272 days
56. Maria Redaelli-Granoli April 3, 1899 110 years 268 days
Tie. Grazia-Giovanna Carbonaro-Pitrolo April 5, 1899 110 years 266 days
Tie. Elsie Thompson April 5, 1899 110 years 266 days
59. Marie Lemoigne May 18, 1899 110 years 223 days
60. Hatsuno Tanaka May 22, 1899 110 years 219 days
61. Toku Yamaguchi May 24, 1899 110 years 217 days
62. Tomasa Mendez-Rico June 2, 1899 110 years 208 days
63. Toshi Higano June 19, 1899 110 years 191 days
64. Maria Pierson-Ledent June 20, 1899 110 years 190 days
65. Maria Ciuffreda-Mondelli June 21, 1899 110 years 189 days
66. Gudrun Omdahl Onshuus July 17, 1899 110 years 163 days
67. Angela Case-Petrone July 21, 1899 110 years 159 days
Tie. Ruth Anderson July 24, 1899 110 years 156 days
Tie. Bernice Madigan July 24, 1899 110 years 156 days
Tie. Elsie Ward July 24, 1899 110 years 156 days
71. Ruth Bauder Clark August 1, 1899 110 years 148 days
72. Soledad Mexia August 13, 1899 110 years 136 days
73. Mitsuno Suzuki August 23, 1899 110 years 126 days
74. Helen Stump August 25, 1899 110 years 124 days
75. Gabrielle Demets August 26, 1899 110 years 123 days
76. Edna McClure August 28, 1899 110 years 121 days
77. Violet Wood September 2, 1899 110 years 116 days
78. Ine Atarashiya September 6, 1899 110 years 112 days
79. Antonietta Rocca-Cerizza October 7, 1899 110 years 81 days
80. Agnes Wetzel October 18, 1899 110 years 70 days
81. Jeanne Gagnard October 29, 1899 110 years 59 days
82. Catherine Masters November 23, 1899 110 years 34 days
83. Carmela Mileo-Forciniti November 27, 1899 110 years 30 days
84. Emma Morano-Martinuzzi November 29, 1899 110 years 28 days
85. Grace Jones December 7, 1899 110 years 20 days
86. Adrienne Ledent Deember 13, 1899 110 years 14 days
87. Frieda Schmidt December 15, 1899 110 years 12 days