Oldest people

This article is about the oldest verified people of all time. For the list, see List of the verified oldest people. For the oldest currently living people, see List of oldest living people. For the main article, see Supercentenarian. For modern, or complete, unvalidated supercentenarian claims, see Longevity claims. For historical, incomplete unvalidated supercentenarian claims, see Longevity myths.
Jeanne Calment (here depicted at age 20 in 1895) holds the record for the longest documented lifespan with 122 years and 164 days.

This is a list of tables of the oldest people in the world in ordinal ranks. To avoid including false or unconfirmed claims of old age, names here are restricted to those people whose ages have been validated by an international body dealing in longevity research, such as the Gerontology Research Group or Guinness World Records, and others who have otherwise been reliably sourced.

The longest documented and verified human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France, a woman who lived to age 122 years and 164 days. As women live longer than men on average, women predominate in combined records. The longest lifespan for a man is that of Jiroemon Kimura of Japan (1897–2013), who lived to age 116 years and 54 days.

The oldest living person in the world whose age has been validated is 116-year-old Tomiko Itooka of Japan, born 23 May 1908.[1][2] The oldest living verified man is 112-year-old John Tinniswood of the United Kingdom, born 26 August 1912.[3]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference WSRL was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Atwal, Sanj (21 August 2024). "116-year-old Japanese woman confirmed as world's oldest living person". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
  3. ^ "Oldest man living". Guinness World Records. 5 April 2024. Retrieved 5 April 2024.