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The following is a list of living centenarians (living people who have attained the age of at least 100 years) known for reasons other than just their longevity.For more specific lists of people (living or deceased) who are known for these reasons, see lists of centenarians.
A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100 years. Because life expectancies worldwide are below 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity.The United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians worldwide in 2012, [1] and 573,000 in 2020, almost quadruple the 2000 estimate of 151,000.
This is a list of the oldest living people who have been verified to be alive as of the dates of the cited supporting sources. It was estimated in 2015 that between 150 and 600 living people had reached the age of 110. [1]
Living past 100 is unusual: as of January this year, centenarians made up 0.03% of the US population, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of US Census Bureau data. But average life ...
But living past 100 isn't the rarity it once was. Many exceed the milestone and live a century or more, including the 1 in 7 million Westerners estimated to live past the age of 110.
According to data from the Population Division of the United Nations, there were 89,739 living centenarians in the U.S. in 2021—about two times more than the number of people in the 100+ crowd ...
She returned to live with family in Massachusetts in 2007. [71] She participated in Boston University School of Medicine's New England Centenarian Study, [72] and was interviewed and filmed by the Center for Aging at the University of Chicago and the ABC World News. [72] She is one of 100 centenarians in The Archon Genomics XPRIZE.
The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men. 100 verified oldest women The list includes supercentenarians validated by organisations specialising in extreme age verification such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG), [ 5 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] with, in some cases, press coverage as a supplementary source.