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This is a list of living national longevity recordholders of both genders (if both are known). By the nature of this page, the information on this page is only intended as a general guide. In many nations, an unknown person may be older. Anonymous persons are included below if they have a date of birth and can be reliably sourced.

Living national recordholders

Country Name Sex Birth Age
AlbaniaALB Gjylo Karafili (b.GreeceGRE) F 12 June 1918 107 years, 156 days
Ismet Elezi M 5 Apr 1920 105 years, 224 days
F
AlgeriaALG Marie-Louise Bresson (l.FranceFRA) F 15 Mar 1913 112 years, 245 days
F
M
Antigua and BarbudaATG Hermena Goodwin F 10 Jan 1921 104 years, 309 days
Christopher Browne M 29 Oct 1922 103 years, 17 days
ArgentinaARG Angelica Tiscornia F 22 Aug 1912 113 years, 85 days
Honorio Cabrera M 16 Jan 1919 106 years, 303 days
AustraliaAUS Ken Weeks M 5 Oct 1913 112 years, 41 days
Lorna Henstridge F 6 June 1914 111 years, 162 days
AustriaAUT Anna Wagner F 6 June 1914 111 years, 162 days
Josef Peer M 31 Jan 1918 107 years, 288 days
BarbadosBRB Hermione Parris F 29 Dec 1916 108 years, 321 days
Joseph Ashby M 29 Sept 1918 107 years, 47 days
BelgiumBEL Denise Waelbers F 26 Sep 1915 110 years, 50 days
Alfons Declerck (b.United KingdomUK ) M 27 May 1917 108 years, 172 days
Albert Libert M 4 July 1917 108 years, 134 days
The BahamasBHS F
M
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIH Anonymous M 31 Oct 1918 107 years, 15 days
Bosiljka Djogo F 1 June 1920 105 years, 167 days
BelarusBLR Anna Gromyko F 5 Mar 1918 107 years, 255 days
Semyon Shubertiy (b.UkraineUKR) M 30 Apr 1918 107 years, 199 days
Semyon Beresnev M 15 Jan 1920 105 years, 304 days
BelizeBLZ F
Gilbert Ellis M 24 Sep 1916 109 years, 52 days
BoliviaBOL M
Estefania Alcira Claure Bejarano F 26 Dec 1916 108 years, 324 days
BrazilBRA Yolanda Beltrao de Azevedo F 13 Jan 1911 114 years, 306 days
Joao Marinho Neto M 5 Oct 1912 113 years, 41 days
BruneiBRN F
M
BulgariaBUL Esme Mustafa F 2 May 1917 108 years, 197 days
Hinyu Kolarov M 1 June 1920 105 years, 167 days
CanadaCAN Katherine Baumchen (l.United StatesUSA) F 10 Feb 1915 110 years, 278 days
Burdett Sisler (b.United StatesUSA) M 14 Apr 1915 110 years, 215 days
Marie Rosa F 17 Sept 1915 110 years, 59 days
Ted Price M 14 Aug 1916 109 years, 93 days
ChinaCHN Yu Baozhen F 27 Mar 1913 112 years, 233 days
Zhou Renqing M 7 Nov 1913 112 years, 8 days
ChileCHL Rosa Laura Torres Barra F 20 July 1913 112 years, 118 days
M
ColombiaCOL Adolfo Camacho Ripoll M 13 Apr 1915 110 years, 216 days
Ana Faustina Tejada de Valdes F 9 Feb 1915 110 years, 279 days
Costa RicaCRI Zoraida Montezuma F 31 Oct 1913 112 years, 15 days
Bernabe Cordoba M 11 June 1915 110 years, 157 days
CroatiaCRO Milka Baukovic (l.SerbiaSRB) F 5 Feb 1915 110 years, 283 days
Hilda Hecej F 23 Apr 1918 107 years, 206 days
Zdenko Premzl M 25 July 1919 106 years, 113 days
CubaCUB Rosa Julia Maria Pena Hechebarria F 23 Oct 1914 111 years, 23 days
Anonymous M 4 Feb 1916 109 years, 284 days
CyprusCYP F
M
Czech RepublicCZE Karla Kockova F 25 Dec 1917 107 years, 325 days
Antonin Slenc M 28 Sep 1919 106 years, 48 days
DenmarkDEN Kirsten Schwalbe F 10 Mar 1914 111 years, 250 days
Aksel Gunnar Pedersen M 26 May 1918 107 years, 173 days
DominicaDMA Asher Timothy M 28 Apr 1917 108 years, 201 days
Edvira Anatol F 23 Feb 1921 104 years, 265 days
Dominican RepublicDOM Maria Altagracia Antigua F 21 Jan 1915 110 years, 298 days
M
EcuadorECU Rosa Elena Pinzon F 31 May 1914 111 years, 168 days
M
El SalvadorSLV Bernabe Serrano Chavez F 11 June 1915 110 years, 157 days
M
EstoniaEST Hilja Norman F 1 May 1918 107 years, 198 days
Anonymous (Ida-Virumaa) M 1919/1920 105 years, 131 days+
East TimorETM Joao Felgueiras (b.PortugalPOR) M 9 June 1921 104 years, 159 days
F
M
FinlandFIN Vieno Nurmilaukas F 23 Sep 1917 108 years, 53 days
Ilmari Koppinen (b.RussiaRUS) M 8 Jan 1918 107 years, 311 days
Aarne Ukkola M 13 May 1918 107 years, 186 days
FijiFJI Gangamma Swamy F 17 July 1915 110 years, 121 days
M
FranceFRA Marie-Rose Tessier F 21 May 1910 115 years, 178 days
Maurice Le Coutour M 14 May 1914 111 years, 185 days
GabonGAB Catherine Mba F 15 May 1918 107 years, 184 days
M
GermanyGER Else Tostmann F 20 Oct 1913 112 years, 26 days
Karl Haidle M 2 Sep 1915 110 years, 74 days
GreeceGRE Paressa Orfanidou (b.TurkeyTUR) F 18 Sep 1915 110 years, 58 days
Gjylo Karafili (l.AlbaniaALB) F 12 June 1918 107 years, 156 days
Konstantinos Bardis M Oct/Dec 1918 106 years, 319 days+
F
GrenadaGRD Judith Mends F 23 June 1916 109 years, 145 days
Samuel Fletcher M 15 Apr 1925 100 years, 214 days
GuatemalaGTM Felix Caal M 8 Dec 1915 109 years, 342 days
F
GuyanaGUY Zorie De Mattos F 17 Jan 1915 110 years, 302 days
M
HaitiHAI
M
HondurasHON Lucia Izaguirre F 12 July 1918 107 years, 126 days
Justo Velasquez M 7 May 1917 108 years, 192 days
HungaryHUN Arpadne Juhasz F 14 May 1914 111 years, 185 days
Laszlo Czobel M ≈20 Oct 1918 ≈107 years, 26 days
Iceland ISL Thorhildur Magnusdottir F 22 Dec 1917 107 years, 328 days
Thordur Jorundsson M 19 Feb 1922 103 years, 269 days
IndiaIND F
Mani Kumar Chetri M 23 May 1920 105 years, 176 days
IrelandIRL Eileen Hynes F 15 Dec 1916 108 years, 335 days
Joe Veselsky (b.SlovakiaSVK) M 20 Oct 1918 107 years, 26 days
Paddy Claffey M 17 Apr 1921 104 years, 212 days
IsraelISR Tzila Cohen (b.PolandPOL) F C. 20 Nov 1914 c. 110 years, 360 days
F
Jehuda Widawski (b.PolandPOL) M 26 July 1919 106 years, 112 days
Dan Tolkowsky M 17 Jan 1921 104 years, 302 days
ItalyITA Lucia Laura Sangenito F 22 Nov 1910 114 years, 358 days
Vitantonio Lovallo M 28 Mar 1914 111 years, 232 days
JamaicaJAM Merah Smith (l.United KingdomUK ) F 9 Nov 1912 113 years, 6 days
Louise Small F 24 May 1916 109 years, 175 days
M
JapanJPN Shigeko Kagawa F 28 May 1911 114 years, 171 days
Kiyotaka Mizuno M 14 Mar 1914 111 years, 246 days
KazakhstanKAZ Kuralay Orazbayeva F 1 Jan 1920 105 years, 318 days
M
KosovoKOS Taibe Dushica F 1 Jan 1917 108 years, 318 days
Zef Berisha M 6 Feb 1924 101 years, 282 days
LatviaLAT F
Antons Mortukans M 20 Feb 1919 106 years, 263 days
LithuaniaLTU Leonora Kontrimiene F 7 Feb 1916 109 years, 281 days
M
Saint LuciaLCA Philomen Nicholas F 23 Oct 1914 111 years, 23 days
M
LuxembourgLUX Pauline Becker-Blasius F 11 Jan 1919 106 years, 308 days
M
MacedoniaMKD Rachel Nahmias (l.United StatesUSA) F 7 Oct 1917 108 years, 39 days
Ibush Ademi M 15 Apr 1918 107 years, 214 days
F
MaltaMLT Grace Gatt F 30 Jan 1916 109 years, 289 days
Albert Ganado M 9 Mar 1924 101 years, 251 days
MonacoMCO Georgette Gassier F 9 July 1920 105 years, 129 days
M
MauritiusMRI Olivette Labonne F 7 Jan 1916 109 years, 312 days
M
MexicoMEX Eulalia Bravo Bravo F 12 Feb 1913 112 years, 276 days
Higinio Velasco Cisneros M 11 Jan 1916 109 years, 308 days
MoldovaMOL Domnica Rotari F 20 May 1920 105 years, 179 days
M
MontenegroMNE Danica Bulatovic (l.SerbiaSRB) F 17 Aug 1917 108 years, 90 days
Anonymous F 1 July/31 Oct 1919 106 years, 15 days+
Vukosav Damjanovic M 18 Jan 1922 103 years, 301 days
NetherlandsNED Elizabeth Philippina van Boven-Smaal F 5 Jan 1915 110 years, 314 days
Johannes Theunisse M 24 Sep 1916 109 years, 52 days
NigeriaNGA F
Anonymous of Abuja M 8 May 1917 108 years, 191 days
New ZealandNZL Aileen Kars F 12 Sep 1913 112 years, 64 days
Lloyd Geering M 26 Feb 1918 107 years, 262 days
NicaraguaNIC Juana Paula Jarquin F 25 Jun 1916 109 years, 143 days
M
NorwayNOR Lina Anundsen F 12 Nov 1914 111 years, 3 days
Margit Larsen F 12 Nov 1914 111 years, 3 days
Odd Borlaug M 31 Mar 1917 108 years, 229 days
PanamaPAN Juan Bautista Quiroz Piti M 29 Aug 1915 110 years, 78 days
F
ParaguayPAR Virgilio Davalos Rey M 8 Oct 1914 111 years, 38 days
F
PeruPER Victoria Garcia Gil F 6 Oct 1915 110 years, 40 days
M
PhilippinesPHL Genoveva Garcia F 3 Jan 1916 109 years, 316 days
Lauro Bilaos M 17 Aug 1916 109 years, 90 days
PolandPOL Anna Winiarska F 23 Feb 1915 110 years, 265 days
Tadeusz Lutak M 29 Aug 1917 108 years, 78 days
PortugalPOR Maria Jorge Esteves de Almeida (l.BrazilBRA) F 28 May 1912 113 years, 171 days
Maria da Conceicao Brito F 31 Dec 1912 112 years, 319 days
Joaquim Varela M 13 May 1915 110 years, 186 days
RomaniaROU Ilie Ciocan M 10 June 1913 112 years, 158 days
Paladia Noja F 20 July 1915 110 years, 118 days
RussiaRUS Klavdiya Gadyuchkina F 5 Dec 1910 114 years, 345 days
Pavel Plotnikov M 23 Mar 1918 107 years, 237 days
SerbiaSRB Milka Baukovic (b.CroatiaCRO) F 5 Feb 1915 110 years, 283 days
Zivorad Markovic M 9 Oct 1919 106 years, 37 days
Dobrila Dragojerac F 30 Sep 1920 105 years, 46 days
SeychellesSEY F
Willy Theresine M 19 Apr 1924 101 years, 210 days
Saint Kitts and NevisKNA Bernice Sebastian (l.United StatesUSA) F 21 Sep 1913 112 years, 55 days
Elizer Jeffers F 30 Nov 1919 105 years, 350 days
George David M 29 Aug 1921 104 years, 78 days
SlovakiaSVK Juliana Jarosova F 26 June 1918 107 years, 142 days
Joe Veselsky (l.IrelandIRL) M 20 Oct 1918 107 years, 26 days
Jan Slavik M 24 June 1920 105 years, 144 days
SloveniaSVN Marija Zeks F 12 Aug 1916 109 years, 95 days
Milan Sefman M 12 Oct 1919 106 years, 34 days
South AfricaZAF F
Maurice McGregor (l.CanadaCAN) M 24 Mar 1920 105 years, 236 days
M
SpainESP Angelina Torres Vallbona F 18 Mar 1913 112 years, 242 days
Jesus Redondo Bermejo M 2 June 1915 110 years, 166 days
SwedenSWE Birgit Johansson F 9 Dec 1915 109 years, 341 days
Oskar Ferm M 13 June 1918 107 years, 155 days
SwitzerlandSUI Hedwig Zaugg F 17 May 1915 110 years, 182 days
Walter Muller M 5 Apr 1919 106 years, 224 days
SurinameSUR Hetty van Orsoy F 9 Feb 1920
M
TaiwanTWN Yu Te-Hsin M 17 Mar 1915 110 years, 243 days
F
TajikistanTJK F
M
Trinidad & TobagoTRI Irving Joseph M 17 June 1915 110 years, 151 days
F
TurkeyTUR Cemile Teyze F 25 June 1916 109 years, 143 days
M
TuvaTUV Siaosi Finiki M 14 Feb 1934 91 years, 274 days
UgandaUGA Mzee Canon Kolliab Maswere M 27 July 1917 108 years, 111 days
UkraineUKR Kateryna Kots F 3 Oct 1916 109 years, 43 days
Ilya Brovdy M 13 Sept 1918 107 years, 63 days
United KingdomUK Ethel Caterham F 21 Aug 1909 116 years, 86 days
Hugh Kerr M 09 Oct 1915 110 years, 37 days
UruguayURU Anonymous F 16 Sep 1915 110 years, 60 days
Maximiano Francisco Marta M 28 Oct 1916 109 years, 18 days
United StatesUSA Naomi Whitehead F 26 Sep 1910 115 years, 50 days
Luis Cano (b.ColombiaCOL) M 7 Dec 1914 110 years, 343 days
Edwin Martin M 15 Feb 1915 110 years, 273 days
VenezuelaVEN Pedro Maria Molina Marquez M 27 Apr 1915 110 years, 202 days
Luz Maria Quesada Garcia F 8 Jan 1916 109 years, 311 days
ZimbabweZIM Paul Mwazha M 25 Oct 1918 107 years, 21 days

Living territorial recordholders

Country / Territory Name Sex Birth Age
DenmarkDEN Faroe Islands (Denmark)FRO,DenmarkDEN Sylvia Berg F 16 June 1918 107 years, 152 days
FinlandFIN Aland Islands (Finland)ALA,FinlandFIN Vernette Liven F 11 Oct 1921 104 years, 35 days
Runar Blomsterlund M 8 May 1922 103 years, 191 days
FranceFRA French GuianaGUF,FranceFRA Edouard Maurice Henry (b.Martinique (France)MTQ,FranceFRA) M 18 Mar 1920 105 years, 242 days
F
Guadeloupe (France)GLP,FranceFRA Gervaise Baclet F 5 Feb 1916 109 years, 283 days
Honore Petilaire-Bellet M 14 June 1919 106 years, 154 days
Martinique (France)MTQ,FranceFRA Marie-Dominique Zadick F 14 Aug 1913 112 years, 93 days
Lazare Levanne M 2 Sep 1919 106 years, 74 days
St. Martin (FRA)MAF, FRA F
M
French PolynesiaPYF,FranceFRA F
M
Saint Barthélemy (France)BLM, FRA F
M
Saint Pierre and MiquelonSPM, FRA F
M
NetherlandsNED ArubaARU,NetherlandsNED F
M
CuraçaoCUW,NetherlandsNED F
M
Saba Island Doris Hodge-Wilson (l.St. Maarten (NED)SXM

)

F 29 Oct 1921 104 years, 17 days
M
Saint Eustatius Sophia Busby (b.Saint Kitts and NevisKNA) F 19 Sep 1919 106 years, 57 days
M
St. Maarten (NED)SXM Doris Hodge-Wilson (b.Saba Island) F 29 Oct 1921 104 years, 17 days
M
United KingdomUK BermudaBER Leona Thompson F 11 Apr 1917 108 years, 218 days
M
British Virgin IslandsBVI Enelle Smith F 22 Dec 1918 106 years, 328 days
M
Isle of ManIMN,United KingdomUK Jessica Carter (b.EnglandENG,United KingdomUK ) F 24 Aug 1915 110 years, 83 days
M
MontserratMSR Sarah Piper F 18 Feb 1917 108 years, 270 days
M
ScotlandSCO,United KingdomUK Hugh Kerr M 9 Oct 1915 110 years, 37 days
Agnes McAlpine F 1 Mar 1916 109 years, 259 days
Northern IrelandNIR,United KingdomUK Margaret McMordie F 14 Jan 1918 107 years, 305 days
Norman Irwin M 17 Nov 1918 106 years, 363 days
EnglandENG,United KingdomUK Ethel Caterham F 21 Aug 1909 116 years, 86 days
Arthur Aspinall M 13 Oct 1916 109 years, 33 days
United StatesUSA GuamGUM,United StatesUSA F
M
Puerto RicoPRI,United StatesUSA Ana Helvetia Barros Schira F 9 Apr 1914 111 years, 220 days
Manuel Martinez Milan M 18 June 1916 109 years, 150 days

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