List of oldest living people by country
In supplement to the National longevity recordholders page, this page is for the oldest people 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 18th 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. Countries are listed in order of the age of the present recordholder.
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,for the need to treat exaggerated claims with skepticism given the extreme documented mortality curves see the longevity myths article. For the oldest people ever in a certain country, see the national longevity recordholders.
Myra Nicholson holds the living record (born December 14, 1894).
Frank Scarrabelotti holds the living male record (born August 4, 1897).
United States of America
Elizabeth Bolden is the oldest living American, born August 15, 1890.
Moses Hardy was born January 6, 1893 or 1894, making him the oldest living male American resident.
Julie Winnefred Bertrand is the oldest living Canadian, born September 16, 1891.
Giulia Sani-Casagli is the oldest living resident, being born September 15, 1893.
Camille Loiseau is the doyenne de France, born February 13, 1892.
Maurice Floquet is the oldest living Frenchman, born December 25, 1894.
Emmeline Brice, Britain's oldest living woman, born March 9, 1895, is Britain's oldest known person.
Henry Allingham holds the male record, born June 6, 1896.
Yone Minagawa is the oldest living person, born January 4, 1893.
Tomoji Tanabe holds the male record, born September 18, 1895.
Maria de Jesus is the oldest living Portuguese person, born September 10,1893.
German-born Catherine Trompeter, whose nationality switched to French when the Alsace was returned from Germany to France, holds the record (born March 28, 1895). Irmgard von Stephani (born September 20, 1895) holds the record for the oldest living native German.
Robert Meier (born March 10, 1897) holds the male record.
Astrid Zachrison (born May 15, 1895) holds the overall record.
Manuela Fernandez-Fojaco (born June 18, 1895) is the oldest living Spaniard.
Anna Ringier (born April 12, 1896) holds the overall record.
Grietje Jansen-Anker (born 12 September, 1897) holds the overall record.
Johannes Leendert van der Giessen (born 17 December, 1899) holds the male record. He is also the last living Dutchman born in the 19th century.
Elsa Tilkanen (born September 26, 1896) holds the overall record.
Irma Van de Voorde-Notteboom (born 2 November, 1897) is the oldest inhabitant.
The current oldest person is an unnamed Afghanistan-born male from 1896 living in Århus. Torkil Dressø (born March 29, 1899) is the oldest living native Danish male. He is also the last living Danish-born male born in the 19th century.
Currentmy the oldest female is an unnamed 107-year-old (born in 1898) from Odense.