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At the ripe old age of 118, she sits atop the infographic below, showing the age and birthplace of the oldest living people on Earth. All women, the countries of birth most represented here are Japan and the United States ; accounting for two each, with the U.S. figure growing to four when expanding to a top ten.
It means that one Japanese person in every 1,450 is now aged over 100 – and women account for 88.4% of centenarians, including Kane Tanaka, the world’s oldest person at 118 years. In Okinawa, there were almost double the number of centenarians per 100,000 people in 2015, as there were in Japan as a whole.
More than 1 in 10 people in Japan are now aged 80 or older, and the country consistently rates as having the world's oldest population. This is having a profound impact on Japan's economy, workforce and society. The World Economic Forum's Future of Jobs Report 2023 finds that only 35% of companies prioritize workers aged over 55.
The oldest living person, Jeanne Calment of France, was 122 when she died in 1997; the current oldest person is 118-year-old Kane Tanaka of Japan. Using Bayesian probability, researchers estimate that the world record of 122 years almost certainly will be broken this century.
The oldest person in history, a French woman named Jeanne Calment lived to 122, but when she was born the average life expectancy was roughly 43. A recent study proposes that the limit to human lifespan is closer to 150.
The world's oldest man, Saturnino de la Fuente of Spain, is turning 112 years old on Monday. He also hails from a country with a higher-than-average population of centenarian. In France, Spain and Italy, the share of the population who is over the age of 100 stands at around 0.03 percent - the highest in Europe.
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Head of Digital Media, World Economic Forum After the historic United Kingdom vote to leave the European Union, the pound suffered one of its worst days ever - falling to a 30-year low. More than $2.5 trillion was wiped from global equity values in the days that followed the result.
More than ever before, we are living in a world that is being transformed and disrupted. The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here and while people across the planet enthusiastically embrace the new convergence between the physical, digital and biological worlds, there is also uncertainty and apprehension. Businesses find themselves trailing in the pace of change. Not surprisingly, business ...
Iceland and the Isle of Man both have interesting claims to democracy. Each has a parliamentary body that is over 1,000 years old, making them the longest standing democratic institutions in the world. But Iceland only got its independence in 1944 from Denmark — and while it is self-governing, the Isle of Man is not a country.