This page supplements the list of oldest people by nation, which itemizes the oldest people

Oldest people

This is a list of tables of the verified oldest people in the world in ordinal rank, such as oldest person or oldest man. In these tables, a supercentenarian is considered 'verified' if his or her claim has been validated by an international body that specifically deals in longevity research, such...

 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

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 organized a central recordkeeping system for England

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 and Wales

Wales

Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 in 1837, making it compulsory by 1874.

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

Supercentenarian

A supercentenarian is someone who has reached the age of 110 years. This age is achieved by about one in a thousand centenarians....

 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 page lists the "recordholders" for various countries, to the extent that they can be established thus far. Those born in one country but who later moved to another are specifically noted.

National records

Country	Name	Sex	Birth date	Age as of
Algeria Algeria Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...	Marcelle Narbonne Marcelle Narbonne Marcelle Narbonne is the oldest living person in France and in Europe. She is also the 9th-oldest person in the world. She and Marie-Thérèse Bardet are the last 2 verified living French people born before 1900.-Biography:... (lives in France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... )	F	25 March 1898
Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda Antigua and Barbuda is a twin-island nation lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major inhabited islands, Antigua and Barbuda, and a number of smaller islands...	Irene Carlos	F	23 January 1902
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	Eva McConnell	F	5 May 1901
Austria Austria Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...	Hermine Nistler	F	24 December 1900
Barbados Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint...	James Sisnett James Sisnett James Emmanuel Sisnett is the oldest verified living man in North America. He is currently the world's second-oldest living man, behind Jiroemon Kimura. Sisnett is one of the last three men verfiably born in the 19th century...	M	22 February 1900
	Emily Clarke	F		≥
Belgium Belgium Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...	Germaine Degueldre	F	26 September 1900
	Jan Goossenaerts Jan Goossenaerts Joannes "Jan" Aloïsius Goossenaerts is a Belgian supercentenarian. Since the death of Stanley Lucas of the United Kingdom he has been the oldest living man in Europe. He is currently the world's third-oldest living man. The Gerontology Research Group lists him as the fifty-six oldest living...	M	30 October 1900
Bolivia Bolivia Bolivia officially known as Plurinational State of Bolivia , is a landlocked country in central South America. It is the poorest country in South America...	Helena López viuda de Sánchez	F		≥
Botswana Botswana Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana , is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa. The citizens are referred to as "Batswana" . Formerly the British protectorate of Bechuanaland, Botswana adopted its new name after becoming independent within the Commonwealth on 30 September 1966...	Kebuang Tsebe	F	1 January 1902
Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...	Bráulio Celestino	M	29 March 1901
Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...	Anonymous	M	1900	≥
Canada Canada Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...	Sum Ying Fung (born in China China Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture... )	F	27 January 1899
Croatia Croatia Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...	Ljubica Lončar	F	7 April 1905
Curaçao Curaçao Curaçao is an island in the southern Caribbean Sea, off the Venezuelan coast. The Country of Curaçao , which includes the main island plus the small, uninhabited island of Klein Curaçao , is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands...	Maria Samson-Leer	F	1 February 1906
Czech Republic Czech Republic The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....	Evangelia Čarasová (born in Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe.... )	F	15 February 1904
	Marie Fišerová	F	27 November 1904
	Anonymous	M	1905	≥
Denmark Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...	Dora Jensen	F	27 August 1903
	Aage Nielsen	M	29 November 1904
Estonia Estonia Estonia , officially the Republic of Estonia , is a state in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea, to the south by Latvia , and to the east by Lake Peipsi and the Russian Federation . Across the Baltic Sea lies...	Maria Orutalu	F	29 July 1903
	Anonymous	M	31 December 1906
Finland Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...	Anonymous	F	1902	≥
	Anonymous	M	1905	≥
France France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...	Marcelle Narbonne Marcelle Narbonne Marcelle Narbonne is the oldest living person in France and in Europe. She is also the 9th-oldest person in the world. She and Marie-Thérèse Bardet are the last 2 verified living French people born before 1900.-Biography:...  (born in Algeria)	F	25 March 1898
	Marie-Thérèse Bardet	F	2 June 1898
	André Coudrat	M	9 July 1902
Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...	Elisabeth Schneider	F	19 August 1901
	Paul Veit	M	15 January 1903
Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....	Mersene Zohos (lives in the United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... )	F	16 March 1900
	Anonymous	F	1901	≥
	Anonymous	M	1901	≥
Guyana Guyana Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...	Ismay Spooner (born in Barbados)	F	27 December 1900
Hungary Hungary Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...	Gallai Rezső	M	29 January 1904
Iceland Iceland Iceland , described as the Republic of Iceland, is a Nordic and European island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Iceland also refers to the main island of the country, which contains almost all the population and almost all the land area. The country has a population...	Guðríður Guðbrandsdóttir	F	23 May 1906
	Kristján Jónsson	M	22 April 1908
Ireland Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...	Mary Byrne	F	14 August 1904
	Luke Dolan	M	4 June 1906
Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...	Dina Manfredini (lives in the USA)	F	4 April 1897
	Stella Nardari-Vecchiato	F	23 December 1898
	Giovanni Ligato	M	18 February 1901
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	Chiyono Hasegawa Chiyono Hasegawa is a Japanese supercentenarian. Aged , she is the oldest verified person in Japan since the death of Kama Chinen on 2 May 2010, and the oldest person in Asia. She is currently the 2nd oldest verified living person in the world behind American Besse Cooper. On 22 August 2011, Hasegawa became the...	F	20 November 1896
	Jiroemon Kimura Jiroemon Kimura Jiroemon Kimura is a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the age of , is currently the world's oldest living man, since the death of Walter Breuning on 14 April 2011. Being 113 years 361 days at the succession , Kimura is the oldest man ever to gain the title of oldest living man...	M	19 April 1897
Latvia Latvia Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...	Anonymous (immigrant)	?	1898	≥
	Anonymous	?	1900	≥
Mauritius Mauritius Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...	Marie Émilie Louise (born in Diego Garcia Diego Garcia Diego Garcia is a tropical, footprint-shaped coral atoll located south of the equator in the central Indian Ocean at 7 degrees, 26 minutes south latitude. It is part of the British Indian Ocean Territory [BIOT] and is positioned at 72°23' east longitude.... )	F	4 January 1902
Mexico Mexico The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...	Soledad Mexia Soledad Mexia Soledad Mexia is a supercentenarian now living in San Diego. She is the oldest verified living person born in Mexico and the oldest person in California....  (lives in the USA)	F	13 August 1899
Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...	Cornelis Geurtz	M	4 May 1902
	Anna Goorman-Dommerholt	F	16 October 1902
Norway Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...	Kristi Øktedalen	F	29 June 1902
	Jakob Gunnes	M	18 February 1906
Poland Poland Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...	Józef Kowalski Józef Kowalski Józef Kowalski is, at age 111, thought to be Poland's oldest living man. He is thought to be the oldest verified military veteran in the world, following the death of Gertrude Noone. He is also the only living verified veteran of the 1919-1921 Polish-Soviet War. Kowalski served in the 22nd Uhlan...	M	2 February 1900
Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	Francisco Fernández	M	24 July 1901
	Francisca García-Torres	F	13 September 1901
Sweden Sweden Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....	Rut Engström	F	23 September 1902
	Sven Hedberg	M	13 December 1903
Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....	Anonymous	F		≥
	Pierre Gremion	M	5 March 1902
Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles...	Subhagiya Sarran	F	13 December 1901
	Elbert Redvers Blades	M	7 April 1902
Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...	Petro Lyzan	M	12 May 1900
	Antonina Tishchenko	F	21 February 1901
United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...	Violet Wood Violet Wood Violet Jane Wood of Whitstable is an English supercentenarian, At the age of , Wood is the oldest person in the United Kingdom following the death of 112-year-old Margaret Fish on 12 March 2011.-Life:...	F	2 September 1899
	Rev. Reg Dean	M	4 November 1902
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Besse Cooper Besse Cooper Besse Berry Cooper is an American supercentenarian. After the death of the Brazilian supercentenarian Maria Gomes Valentim on June 21, 2011, Cooper became the world's oldest living person...	F	26 August 1896
	Shelby Harris Shelby Harris Shelby Harris is an American supercentenarian. At , he is currently the oldest living resident of Illinois and the oldest man in the United States. The record for Illinois' oldest person is held by 114 year old Wilhelmina Kott. On 24 October 2011, aged 110 years 207 days he became one of 100...	M	31 March 1901

a Narbonne was a native of French Algeria

French Algeria

French Algeria lasted from 1830 to 1962, under a variety of governmental systems. From 1848 until independence, the whole Mediterranean region of Algeria was administered as an integral part of France, much like Corsica and Réunion are to this day. The vast arid interior of Algeria, like the rest...

. It is now Algeria.

b Kowalski was a native of Smerekivka/Wicyń, which had then been a part of Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary , more formally known as the Kingdoms and Lands Represented in the Imperial Council and the Lands of the Holy Hungarian Crown of Saint Stephen, was a constitutional monarchic union between the crowns of the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary in...

, later a part of Poland; it is presently located in the Ukraine.

Territorial recordholders

Country	Territory	Name	Sex	Birth date	Age as of
Denmark	Faroe Islands Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately halfway between Scotland and Iceland. The Faroe Islands are a self-governing territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, along with Denmark proper and Greenland...	Anonymous	M	1908	≥
		Anonymous	F	1909	≥
	Greenland Greenland Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...	Agnethe Fencker	F	24 Oct 1910
France	Réunion Réunion Réunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...	Marie Diaz (born in Algeria)	F	22 February 1898
United Kingdom	Saint Helena Saint Helena Saint Helena , named after St Helena of Constantinople, is an island of volcanic origin in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which also includes Ascension Island and the islands of Tristan da Cunha...	Hilda Clingham	F	23 July 1910
United States	Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Puerto Rico , officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico , is an unincorporated territory of the United States, located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of both the United States Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands.Puerto Rico comprises an...	Antonia Gerena Rivera	F	19 May 1900