List of the oldest people by country

This is a list of the oldest people by country and in selected territories. It includes the individual(s) for each given country or territory who are not reported to have had the longest lifespan. Such records can only be determined to the extent that the given country's records are reliable. Comprehensive birth registration is largely a 20th-century phenomenon, so records establishing human longevity are necessarily fragmentary. The earliest comprehensive recordkeeping systems arose in Western Europe. For example, the United Kingdom organized a central recordkeeping system for England and Wales in 1837, making it compulsory by 1874.

Oldest ever

This list comprises longest-lived individuals who were born and are living or died in each country. Where known, records for both males and females are noted, as are those born in one country who emigrated to another. Multiple entries for a given country and sex indicate that the oldest person is disputed. Entries for living people are rendered by   Living.

Country Name Sex Birth date Death date Age
Albania Zenepe Pirani (born in Montenegro)
F
10 May 1910 5 Jul 2021 111 years, 56 days
Vasilika Anastas (died in the U.S.)
F
15 Dec 1912 16 Jul 2023 110 years, 213 days
Argentina Casilda Benegas Gallego (born in Paraguay)
F
8 Apr 1907 28 Jun 2022 115 years, 81 days
Evangelista Luisa Lopez de Contarino
F
21 Jun 1907 28 Aug 2021 114 years, 68 days
Armenia Lucy Mirigian (died in the U.S.)
F
15 Aug 1906 12 Feb 2021 114 years, 181 days
Australia Christina Cock
F
25 Dec 1887 22 May 2002 114 years, 148 days
Dexter Kruger
M
13 Jan 1910 20 Jul 2021 111 years, 188 days
Austria Margarete Tröstl
F
26 Feb 1911 Living 112 years, 308 days
Leopold Vietoris
M
4 Jun 1891 9 Apr 2002 110 years, 309 days
Barbados James Sisnett
M
22 Feb 1900 23 May 2013 113 years, 90 days
Emily Clarke
F
17 Nov 1902 1 Jun 2013 110 years, 196 days
Belarus Mollye Marcus (died in the U.S.)
F
18 Oct 1899 18 Feb 2011 111 years, 123 days
Felicia Zaiko (born in Poland)
F
30 Nov 1912 Living 111 years, 31 days
Belgium Joanna Turcksin-Deroover
F
3 Jun 1890 6 Dec 2002 112 years, 186 days
Jan Machiel Reyskens (died in the Netherlands)
M
11 May 1878 7 Jan 1990 111 years, 241 days
Jan Goossenaerts
M
30 Oct 1900 21 Mar 2012 111 years, 143 days
Bosnia and Herzegovina Jovan Jovanović (born in Montenegro)
M
16 Sep 1906 1 Oct 2016 110 years, 15 days
Ajka Lokmić
F
4 May 1914 Living 109 years, 241 days
Brazil Francisca Celsa dos Santos
F
21 Oct 1904 5 Oct 2021 116 years, 349 days
Anísio Rodrigues Alves
M
30 Dec 1892 16 Aug 2009 116 years, 229 days
Bulgaria Karamfila Stoyanova
F
4 Sep 1903 26 May 2014 110 years, 264 days
Canada Marie-Louise Meilleur
F
29 Aug 1880 16 Apr 1998 117 years, 230 days
Arthur Nash (born in the U.K.)
M
7 Jan 1885 4 Nov 1996 111 years, 302 days
James McCoubrey (died in the U.S.)
M
13 Sep 1901 5 Jul 2013 111 years, 295 days
Reuben Sinclair
M
5 Dec 1911 27 Aug 2023 111 years, 265 days
Cape Verde Adelina Domingues (died in the U.S.)
F
19 Feb 1888 21 Aug 2002 114 years, 183 days
Chile Eudocia Barría Barrientos
F
10 Feb 1911 Living 112 years, 324 days
Manuel Benavente Sanhueza
M
25 Sep 1909 21 Mar 2021 111 years, 177 days
Colombia Sofía Rojas
F
13 Aug 1907 30 Jul 2022 114 years, 351 days
Efraín Antonio Ríos García
M
4 Apr 1910 Living 113 years, 271 days
Costa Rica Marita Camacho Quirós
F
10 Mar 1911 Living 112 years, 296 days
Antonio Ardón Soto
M
2 Sep 1888 3 Nov 1998 110 years, 62 days
Croatia Jelisaveta Veljković (died in Serbia)
F
18 Jul 1904 20 Oct 2016 112 years, 94 days
Josip Kršul
M
10 Dec 1911 5 Mar 2021 109 years, 85 days
Cuba Faustina Sarmiento Pupo
F
15 Feb 1905 16 Sep 2019 114 years, 213 days
Czech Republic Maria Mika (died in Austria)
F
23 May 1882 17 Nov 1994 112 years, 178 days
Marie Bernátková
F
22 Oct 1857 4 May 1969 111 years, 194 days
Denmark Christian Mortensen (died in the U.S.)
M
16 Aug 1882 25 Apr 1998 115 years, 252 days
Karla Lindholm Jensen
F
7 May 1908 10 Dec 2020 112 years, 217 days
Georg Ingwersen Jensen
M
14 Jun 1906 15 May 2016 109 years, 336 days
Dominica Anastasie Charles
F
26 Apr 1914 Living 109 years, 249 days
Dominican Republic Tomás Pinales Figuereo
M
31 Mar 1906 24 Sep 2020 114 years, 177 days
Ecuador María Capovilla
F
14 Sep 1889 27 Aug 2006 116 years, 347 days
Julio Cesar Mora
M
10 Mar 1910 22 Oct 2020 110 years, 226 days
El Salvador Santos Hildebrando Rivas García
M
17 Aug 1911 17 Apr 2023 111 years, 243 days
Estonia Ottilie-Armilde Tinnuri
F
3 Feb 1914 Living 109 years, 331 days
Arved Tamm
M
31 Jan 1910 14 Nov 2017 107 years, 287 days
Fiji Bechu Prasad
M
10 May 1900 6 Sep 2005 105 years, 119 days
Finland Maria Rothovius
F
2 Oct 1887 17 Jun 2000 112 years, 259 days
Aarne Arvonen
M
4 Aug 1897 1 Jan 2009 111 years, 150 days
France Jeanne Calment
F
21 Feb 1875 4 Aug 1997 122 years, 164 days
Lucile Randon
F
11 Feb 1904 17 Jan 2023 118 years, 340 days
Marcel Meys
M
12 Jul 1909 15 Dec 2021 112 years, 156 days
Germany Augusta Holtz (died in the U.S.)
F
3 Aug 1871 21 Oct 1986 115 years, 79 days
Charlotte Kretschmann
F
3 Dec 1909 Living 114 years, 28 days
Gustav Gerneth
M
15 Oct 1905 21 Oct 2019 114 years, 6 days
Greece Ioanna Proiou-Dimitriadou
F
2 Jul 1911 5 Apr 2023 111 years, 277 days
Gregory Pandazes (died in the U.S.)
M
15 Jan 1873 22 Dec 1983 110 years, 341 days
Hungary Veronika Zsilinszki F 4 Feb 1908 20 Apr 2021 113 years, 75 days
Elizabeth Stefan (died in the U.S.)
F
13 May 1895 9 Apr 2008 112 years, 332 days
Zoltan Sarosy (died in Canada)
M
23 Aug 1906 19 Jun 2017 110 years, 300 days
Rezső Gallai
M
29 Jan 1904 25 Sep 2014 110 years, 239 days
Iceland Guðrún Björnsdóttir (died in Canada)
F
20 Oct 1888 26 Aug 1998 109 years, 310 days
Sólveig Pálsdóttir
F
20 Aug 1897 28 Oct 2006 109 years, 69 days
Georg Ólafsson
M
26 Mar 1909 22 Feb 2017 107 years, 333 days
India Lucy d'Abreu (died in the U.K.)
F
24 May 1892 7 Dec 2005 113 years, 197 days
Lourdina Conceição Lobo
F
8 Dec 1908 3 Nov 2021 112 years, 330 days
Ireland Kathleen Snavely (died in the U.S.)
F
16 Feb 1902 6 Jul 2015 113 years, 140 days
Katherine Plunket
F
22 Nov 1820 14 Oct 1932 111 years, 327 days
Israel Israel Kristal (born in Poland)
M
15 Sep 1903 11 Aug 2017 113 years, 330 days
Maria Pogonowska (born in Poland)
F
30 Oct 1897 15 Jul 2009 111 years, 258 days
Italy Emma Morano
F
29 Nov 1899 15 Apr 2017 117 years, 137 days
Antonio Todde
M
22 Jan 1889 3 Jan 2002 112 years, 346 days
Jamaica Violet Brown
F
10 Mar 1900 15 Sep 2017 117 years, 189 days
Japan Kane Tanaka
F
2 Jan 1903 19 Apr 2022 119 years, 107 days
Jiroemon Kimura
M
19 Apr 1897 12 Jun 2013 116 years, 54 days
Latvia Rachel Wieselberg (died in the U.K.)
F
23 Jun 1883 6 Jun 1996 112 years, 349 days
Ksenija Mitušova
F
10 Feb 1899 6 Jan 2012 112 years, 330 days
Lebanon Adma Tura (died in France)
F
25 Dec 1906 3 Sep 2018 111 years, 252 days
Lithuania Emilija Krištopaitienė
F
15 Oct 1902 14 Mar 2014 111 years, 150 days
Luxembourg Germaine Litwinski-Kauffmann
F
4 Mar 1908 17 Jan 2019 110 years, 319 days
Jean Ley
M
10 Feb 1903 20 Feb 2013 110 years, 10 days
Malta Maria Farrugia
F
7 Mar 1912 Living 111 years, 299 days
Mexico Dominga Velasco (died in the U.S.)
F
12 May 1901 11 Oct 2015 114 years, 152 days
Susana Gutiérrez Godoy
F
24 May 1910 Living 113 years, 221 days
Wenceslao Leyva González
M
28 Sep 1903 27 Dec 2016 113 years, 90 days
Moldova Goldie Steinberg (died in the U.S.)
F
30 Oct 1900 16 Aug 2015 114 years, 290 days
Montenegro Zenepe Pirani (died in Albania)
F
10 May 1910 5 Jul 2021 111 years, 56 days
Jovan Jovanović (died in Bosnia and Herzegovina)
M
16 Sep 1906 1 Oct 2016 110 years, 15 days
Netherlands Hendrikje van Andel-Schipper
F
29 Jun 1890 30 Aug 2005 115 years, 62 days
Jan Machiel Reyskens (born in Belgium)
M
11 May 1878 7 Jan 1990 111 years, 241 days
Jan Pieter Bos
M
12 Jul 1891 15 Dec 2002 111 years, 156 days
New Zealand Florence Finch (born in the U.K.)
F
22 Dec 1893 10 Apr 2007 113 years, 109 days
Madeline Anderson
F
4 May 1907 19 Jun 2018 111 years, 46 days
North Macedonia Elizabeth Kimoff (died in Canada)
F
20 Nov 1904 15 Oct 2015 110 years, 329 days
Ramiz Selmani
M
10 Oct 1914 2 Jul 2023 108 years, 265 days
Norway Maren Bolette Torp
F
21 Dec 1876 20 Feb 1989 112 years, 61 days
Herman Smith-Johannsen
M
15 Jun 1875 5 Jan 1987 111 years, 204 days
Panama Serafina Herrera de Sugasti
F
21 May 1901 4 Aug 2015 114 years, 75 days
Macario Barría Cárdena
M
10 Mar 1913 Living 110 years, 296 days
Paraguay Casilda Benegas Gallego (died in Argentina)
F
8 Apr 1907 28 Jun 2022 115 years, 81 days
Peru Horacio Celi Mendoza
M
3 Jan 1897 25 Sep 2011 114 years, 265 days
Julia Dougherty (died in the U.S.)
F
20 Aug 1893 4 Dec 2003 110 years, 106 days
Philippines Flaviano Jubane
M
22 Dec 1909 13 Feb 2020 110 years, 53 days
Poland Tekla Juniewicz (born in Ukraine)
F
10 Jun 1906 19 Aug 2022 116 years, 70 days
Israel Kristal (died in Israel)
M
15 Sep 1903 11 Aug 2017 113 years, 330 days
Portugal Maria de Jesus
F
10 Sep 1893 2 Jan 2009 115 years, 114 days
Augusto Moreira de Oliveira
M
6 Oct 1896 13 Feb 2009 112 years, 130 days
Romania Dumitru Comănescu
M
21 Nov 1908 27 Jun 2020 111 years, 219 days
Maria Corba (died in Germany)
F
15 Aug 1878 8 Mar 1989 110 years, 205 days
Russia Klavdiya Gadyuchkina
F
5 Dec 1910 Living 113 years, 26 days
Saint Kitts and Nevis Maria Luisa Benjamin (died in Aruba)
F
23 Jul 1910 1 Nov 2021 111 years, 101 days
Serbia Jelisaveta Veljković (born in Croatia)
F
18 Jul 1904 20 Oct 2016 112 years, 94 days
Seychelles Nancy Marie
F
26 Jan 1909 11 May 2021 112 years, 105 days
Slovakia Maria Brandes (died in Germany)
F
11 Aug 1902 6 Feb 2013 110 years, 179 days
Mária Čeremugová
F
11 Sep 1909 5 Dec 2018 109 years, 85 days
Slovenia Katarina Marinič
F
30 Oct 1899 2 Sep 2010 110 years, 307 days
Niko Dragoš
M
27 Aug 1907 31 Mar 2018 110 years, 216 days
South Africa Johanna Adonis
F
5 Aug 1907 1 Feb 2019 111 years, 180 days
Spain Maria Branyas (born in the U.S.)
F
4 Mar 1907 Living 116 years, 302 days
Ana María Vela Rubio
F
29 Oct 1901 15 Dec 2017 116 years, 47 days
Joan Riudavets
M
15 Dec 1889 5 Mar 2004 114 years, 81 days
Sweden Astrid Zachrison
F
15 May 1895 15 May 2008 113 years, 0 days
Carl Mattsson
M
7 Mar 1908 24 Jul 2019 111 years, 139 days
Switzerland Rosa Rein (born in Germany)
F
24 Mar 1897 14 Feb 2010 112 years, 327 days
Alice Schaufelberger
F
11 Jan 1908 16 Nov 2020 112 years, 310 days
Rodolphe Buxcel (born in Ukraine, died in the U.S.)
M
5 Sep 1908 26 Feb 2019 110 years, 174 days
Pierre Gremion
M
5 Mar 1902 13 Feb 2012 109 years, 345 days
Tajikistan Rashid Karimov
M
9 May 1912 15 Nov 2023 111 years, 190 days
Fotima Salimova
F
20 Jan 1913 Living 110 years, 345 days
Turkey Frank Simes (died in the U.K.)
M
10 Jul 1905 18 Sep 2016 111 years, 70 days
Ukraine Tekla Juniewicz (died in Poland)
F
10 Jun 1906 19 Aug 2022 116 years, 70 days
United Kingdom Charlotte Hughes
F
1 Aug 1877 17 Mar 1993 115 years, 228 days
Henry Allingham
M
6 Jun 1896 18 Jul 2009 113 years, 42 days
United States Sarah Knauss
F
24 Sep 1880 30 Dec 1999 119 years, 97 days
Christian Mortensen (born in Denmark)
M
16 Aug 1882 25 Apr 1998 115 years, 252 days
Walter Breuning
M
21 Sep 1896 14 Apr 2011 114 years, 205 days
Uruguay Manolita Piña (born in Spain)
F
24 Feb 1883 11 Jun 1994 111 years, 107 days
Venezuela Juan Vicente Pérez
M
27 May 1909 Living 114 years, 218 days
Isabel Alvarado López
F
9 Aug 1911 12 Dec 2023 112 years, 125 days

Territorial and overseas regions recordholders

Below is a list of oldest people in the territories of selected countries. Entries for living people are rendered by   Living.

Country Territory Name Sex Birth date Death date Age
Denmark Faroe Islands Theodor Thomassen
M
28 Oct 1908 9 Mar 2016 107 years, 133 days
Kala Jensen
F
3 Sep 1915 1 Feb 2022 106 years, 151 days
Greenland Agnethe Fencker
F
24 Oct 1910 7 Apr 2013 102 years, 165 days
Anton Geisler
M
21 Feb 1919 28 Feb 2021 102 years, 7 days
Finland Åland Anna Hagman
F
27 Dec 1895 18 Apr 2006 110 years, 112 days
France French Guiana Eudoxie Baboul
F
1 Oct 1901 1 Jul 2016 114 years, 274 days
Guadeloupe Luce Maced (died in Martinique)
F
2 May 1886 25 Feb 2000 113 years, 299 days
Marthe Esther Roch
F
19 Aug 1907 21 Sep 2020 113 years, 33 days
Julien Emile Arsene
M
18 May 1911 12 Jun 2021 110 years, 25 days
Martinique Luce Maced (born in Guadeloupe)
F
2 May 1886 25 Feb 2000 113 years, 299 days
Julie Montabord
F
17 Apr 1906 18 Jul 2019 113 years, 92 days
Jules Théobald
M
17 Apr 1909 5 Oct 2021 112 years, 171 days
New Caledonia Marie-Louise Lhuillier
F
26 Jun 1895 28 Dec 2007 112 years, 185 days
Réunion Marie-Isabelle Diaz (born in Algeria)
F
22 Feb 1898 29 Oct 2011 113 years, 249 days
Julia Sinédia-Cazour
F
12 Jul 1892 6 Oct 2005 113 years, 86 days
Jean-Clementis Amano
M
7 Oct 1908 15 Jun 2019 110 years, 251 days
Saint Barthélemy Eugénie Blanchard
F
16 Feb 1896 4 Nov 2010 114 years, 261 days
Netherlands Aruba Maria Luisa Benjamin (born in Saint Kitts and Nevis)
F
23 Jul 1910 1 Nov 2021 111 years, 101 days
Bonaire Mona Pourier
F
15 Mar 1913 24 Apr 2019 106 years, 40 days
Ricardo Bernardo Statie (died in Aruba)
M
3 Apr 1914 30 May 2019 105 years, 57 days
Curaçao Maria Samson-Leer (born in Aruba)
F
1 Feb 1906 22 Dec 2015 109 years, 324 days
Luna Kleinmoedig
F
19 Oct 1907 7 Mar 2017 109 years, 139 days
Orsilio Pablo Pinedo
M
7 Jul 1913 12 Jan 2020 106 years, 189 days
Portugal Azores Alice Sanders (died in the U.S.)
F
12 May 1897 7 Nov 2007 110 years, 179 days
Madeira José Martins
M
7 Mar 1912 14 May 2022 110 years, 68 days
United Kingdom Anguilla Elma Mealy Gumbs (died in the U.S. Virgin Islands)
F
29 Jun 1905 18 Nov 2012 107 years, 142 days
Jersey Beryl Ada Le Gros
F
30 Aug 1910 31 Jan 2019 108 years, 154 days
Guernsey Margaret Ann Neve
F
18 May 1792 4 Apr 1903 110 years, 321 days
United States Puerto Rico Emiliano Mercado del Toro
M
21 Aug 1891 24 Jan 2007 115 years, 156 days
Antonia Gerena Rivera (died in the U.S.)
F
19 May 1900 2 Jun 2015 115 years, 14 days
Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan
F
1 Sep 1889 29 May 2004 114 years, 271 days
US Virgin Islands Ursula Krigger
F
22 Apr 1902 10 Sep 2015 113 years, 141 days

Oldest living by country

This is a list of the oldest living people by country and lists the oldest people confirmed to be alive in the past year, sorted by country. Those born in one country, but who later moved to another are specifically noted.

Independent states

Country Name Sex Birth date Age as of 31 December 2023
Argentina Isabel Barletta
F
12 Sep 1911 112 years, 110 days
Australia Catherina van der Linden (born in the Netherlands)
F
26 Aug 1912 111 years, 127 days
Austria Margarete Tröstl
F
26 Feb 1911 112 years, 308 days
Bosnia and Herzegovina Ajka Lokmić
F
4 May 1914 109 years, 241 days
Brazil Inah Canabarro Lucas
F
8 Jun 1908 115 years, 206 days
Primo Olivieri
M
7 Mar 1914 109 years, 299 days
Canada Mabel Mah
F
4 Jul 1910 113 years, 180 days
Chile Eudocia Barría Barrientos
F
10 Feb 1911 112 years, 324 days
Colombia Efraín Antonio Ríos García
M
4 Apr 1910 113 years, 271 days
Costa Rica Marita Camacho Quirós
F
10 Mar 1911 112 years, 296 days
Juan Gabriel Hernández Matamoros
M
19 Oct 1913 110 years, 73 days
Croatia Marija Ruljančić (living in Australia)
F
14 Jun 1913 110 years, 200 days
Mara Gabelica
F
8 Sep 1914 109 years, 114 days
Denmark Karen Rigmor Moritz
F
15 Aug 1913 110 years, 138 days
Dominica Anastasie Charles
F
26 Apr 1914 109 years, 249 days
Estonia Ottilie-Armilde Tinnuri
F
3 Feb 1914 109 years, 331 days
Finland Gunborg Hancock (living in Sweden)
F
20 Apr 1912 111 years, 255 days
Helvi Kissala
F
26 Oct 1913 110 years, 66 days
France Marie-Rose Tessier
F
21 May 1910 113 years, 224 days
André Ludwig
M
6 Jun 1912 111 years, 208 days
Germany Charlotte Kretschmann
F
3 Dec 1909 114 years, 28 days
Italy Claudia Baccarini
F
13 Oct 1910 113 years, 79 days
Michele Cicora
M
15 Sep 1913 110 years, 107 days
Japan Tomiko Itooka
F
23 May 1908 115 years, 222 days
Gisaburō Sonobe
M
6 Nov 1911 112 years, 55 days
Kazakhstan Kulzhamilya Akhmedyanova
F
1 Oct 1912 111 years, 91 days
Malta Maria Farrugia
F
7 Mar 1912 111 years, 299 days
Mexico Susana Gutiérrez Godoy
F
24 May 1910 113 years, 221 days
Hilario Orozco Lemus
M
3 Nov 1913 110 years, 58 days
Netherlands Catherina van der Linden (living in Australia)
F
26 Aug 1912 111 years, 127 days
Marina van der Es-Siewers
F
4 Mar 1913 110 years, 302 days
Panama Dolores María Vázquez
F
1 May 1911 112 years, 244 days
Macario Barría Cárdena
M
10 Mar 1913 110 years, 296 days
Poland Jadwiga Żak-Stewart
F
15 Jul 1912 111 years, 169 days
Portugal Maria da Conceição Brito
F
22 Dec 1912 111 years, 9 days
Romania Ilie Ciocan
M
10 Jun 1913 110 years, 204 days
Russia Klavdiya Gadyuchkina
F
5 Dec 1910 113 years, 26 days
Saint Kitts and Nevis Bernice Sebastian (living in the U.S.)
F
21 Sep 1913 110 years, 101 days
Serbia Milka Bauković
F
5 Feb 1915 108 years, 329 days
Slovenia Julijana Zakrajšek
F
28 Oct 1912 111 years, 64 days
Spain Maria Branyas (born in the U.S.)
F
4 Mar 1907 116 years, 302 days
Silveria Martín Díaz
F
20 Jun 1910 113 years, 194 days
Luís Torras
M
29 Dec 1912 111 years, 2 days
Sweden Gunborg Hancock (born in Finland)
F
20 Apr 1912 111 years, 255 days
Agnes Boström
F
29 Apr 1912 111 years, 246 days
Switzerland Marie Guerne
F
26 Mar 1912 111 years, 280 days
Tajikistan Fotima Salimova
F
20 Jan 1913 110 years, 345 days
United Kingdom Ethel Caterham
F
21 Aug 1909 114 years, 132 days
John Tinniswood
M
26 Aug 1912 111 years, 127 days
United States Maria Branyas (living in Spain)
F
4 Mar 1907 116 years, 302 days
Edith Ceccarelli
F
5 Feb 1908 115 years, 329 days
Venezuela Juan Vicente Pérez
M
27 May 1909 114 years, 218 days

Dependent territories

Country Territory Name Sex Birth date Age as of 31 December 2023
France Guadeloupe Émilienne Bécarmin
F
4 Jun 1911 112 years, 210 days
United States Puerto Rico Ana Luisa Garcia
F
22 Aug 1913 110 years, 131 days