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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, 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:

  • The oldest supercentenarian verified by an independent organisation specializing in the study of gerontolgy (e.g The Gerontology Research Group). Pending and unverified claims greater than the verified oldest are not included.
  • Where there is no verified supercentenarian then the oldest pending case, if any, being investigated by a group such as the GRG.
  • Other cases that have a reliable source that identifies the person as the oldest woman or man in their country.

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 Reported birth date Reported age as of 13 August 2024
Australia Jane Gray (born in United Kingdom) F 1 December 1901 122 years, 256 days[2]
Austria Anonymous M May 1904 ≥120 years, 74 days[3]
Barbados James Sisnett M 22 February 1900 124 years, 173 days[2]
Emily Clarke F 17 November 1902 121 years, 270 days[4]
Belgium Fanny Godin F 27 May 1902 122 years, 78 days[5]
Oscar Coulembier M 31 December 1905 118 years, 226 days[6]
Bulgaria Anonymous M 1900 ≥124 years, 22 days[7]
Canada Merle Barwis (born in the USA) F 23 December 1900 123 years, 234 days[2]
James McCoubrey (lives in the USA) M 13 September 1901 122 years, 335 days[2]
Sam Baker M 19 December 1903 120 years, 238 days[8][9]
Costa Rica José Delgado Corrales M 13 March 1900 124 years, 153 days[10][11][12]
China Luo Meizhen F 9 July 1885 139 years, 35 days[13]
Turup Emet M 5 February 1892 132 years, 190 days[13]
Czech Republic Evangelia Čarasová (born in Greece) F 15 February 1904 120 years, 180 days[14][15]
Karel Kašpárek M 21 December 1905 118 years, 236 days[14][16]
Denmark Agnes Steenstrup F 24 November 1903 120 years, 263 days[17]
Georg Jensen M 14 June 1906 118 years, 60 days[17]
Estonia Anonymous F 1904 ≥119 years, 226 days[18]
Elbert Vaabo M 23 December 1906 117 years, 234 days[19][18]
Finland Selma Tuominen F 19 July 1903 121 years, 25 days[20]
Anonymous M 1906 ≥117 years, 226 days[21]
France Irénise Moulonguet F 6 November 1900 123 years, 281 days[2]
Émile Turlant M 1 April 1904 120 years, 134 days[22]
Germany Gertrud Henze F 8 December 1901 122 years, 249 days[2]
Hungary Ilona Kudász F 27 April 1902 122 years, 108 days[23]
Gallai Rezső M 29 January 1904 120 years, 197 days[24]
Iceland Guðríður Guðbrandsdóttir F 23 May 1906 118 years, 82 days[25][26]
Gissur Erlingsson M 21 March 1909 115 years, 145 days[27][28]
Ireland Elizabeth (Lizzie) Heaney (lives in Northern Ireland) F 24 December 1905 118 years, 233 days[29][30]
Luke Dolan M 4 June 1906 118 years, 70 days[31]
Italy Emma Morano-Martinuzzi F 29 November 1899 124 years, 258 days[2]
Arturo Licata M 2 May 1902 122 years, 103 days[2]
Japan Jiroemon Kimura M 19 April 1897 127 years, 116 days[2]
Misao Okawa F 5 March 1898 126 years, 161 days[2]
Lithuania Emilija Krištopaitienė F 15 October 1902 121 years, 303 days[32]
Macedonia Zaidi Sali F 17 May 1901 123 years, 88 days[33]
Mauritius Marie Émilie Louise (born in Diego Garcia) F 4 January 1902 122 years, 222 days[34]
Mexico Soledad Mexia (lives in the USA) F 13 August 1899 125 years, 0 days[2]
Moldova Goldie Steinberg (lives in the USA) F 30 October 1900 123 years, 288 days[2]
Mongolia Maam Ichinkhorol F 1901 ≥122 years, 226 days[35]
Netherlands Egbertje Leutscher-de Vries F 22 October 1902 121 years, 296 days[5][36]
Serop Mirzoyan (born in Turkey) M 1 July 1906 118 years, 43 days[37]
New Zealand Maudie Wilson F 23 March 1903 121 years, 143 days[38]
Norway Elisabet Ekenæs F 26 December 1904 119 years, 231 days[39]
Carl Wilhelm Falck M 27 May 1907 117 years, 78 days[39]
Peru Micaela Corbacho F 28 August 1900 123 years, 351 days[40][41]
Poland Józef Kowalski[a] M 2 February 1900 124 years, 193 days[42]
Portugal Maria Dolores Ferreira F 22 July 1902 122 years, 22 days[5][43]
Spain Francisca García-Torres F 13 September 1901 122 years, 335 days[2]
Sweden Esther Ecklund (lives in the USA) F 28 October 1901 122 years, 290 days[5]
Ruth Engström F 23 September 1902 121 years, 325 days[5][44]
Conrad Johnson (lives in the USA) M 19 January 1904 120 years, 207 days[45]
Erik Andersson M 27 October 1905 118 years, 291 days[44]
Switzerland Anonymous F ≥123 years, 316 days[46]
Trinidad and Tobago Sobayia Sarran F 13 December 1901 122 years, 244 days[47][48]
Ukraine Antonina Tishchenko F 21 February 1901 123 years, 174 days[49][50]
United Kingdom Grace Jones F 7 December 1899 124 years, 250 days[2]
Ralph Tarrant M 7 July 1903 121 years, 37 days[51]
United States Jeralean Talley F 23 May 1899 125 years, 82 days[2]
James McCoubrey (born in Canada) M 13 September 1901 122 years, 335 days[2]

a^ 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 Ukraine.

Territorial recordholders

Country Territory Name Sex Birth date Age as of 13 August 2024
Denmark Faroe Islands Theodor Thomassen M 28 October 1908 115 years, 290 days[52]
Greenland Agnethe Fencker F 24 October 1910 113 years, 294 days[53][54]
Netherlands Curaçao Maria Samson-Leer F 1 February 1906 118 years, 194 days[55][56]
United States Puerto Rico Antonia Gerena Rivera F 19 May 1900 124 years, 86 days[2]

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