Longevity claims

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Longevity claims are unsubstantiated cases of asserted human longevity. Those asserting lifespans of 110 years or more are referred to as supercentenarians. Many have either no official verification or are backed only by partial evidence. Cases where longevity has been fully verified, according to modern standards of longevity research, are reflected in an established list of supercentenarians based on the work of organizations such as the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) or Guinness World Records . This article lists living claims greater than that of the oldest living person whose age has been independently verified, American-born Spanish woman Maria Branyas, aged 117 years, 37 days, and deceased claims greater than that of the oldest person ever whose age has been verified, French woman Jeanne Calment, who died aged 122 years and 164 days. The upper limit for both lists is 130 years.

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Scientific status

Prior to the 19th century, there was insufficient evidence either to demonstrate or to refute centenarian longevity. [1] Even today, no fixed theoretical limit to human longevity is apparent. [2] Studies [1] in the biodemography of human longevity indicate a late-life mortality deceleration law: that death rates level off at advanced ages to a late-life mortality plateau. This implies that there is no fixed upper limit to human longevity, or fixed maximum human lifespan. [3] Researchers in Denmark have found a way to determine when a deceased person was born using radiocarbon dating done on the lens of the eye. [4]

Categorization

Guinness World Records from its inception in 1955, began maintaining a list of the verified oldest people. [5] It developed into a list of all supercentenarians whose lifespan had been verified by at least three documents, in a standardized process, according to the norms of modern longevity research.[ citation needed ] Many unverified cases ("claims" or "traditions") have been controverted by reliable sources. Taking reliable demographic data into account, these unverified cases vary widely in their plausibility.

Fully verified claims

Problems in documenting

In numerous editions from the 1960s through the 1980s, Guinness stated that

No single subject is more obscured by vanity, deceit, falsehood, and deliberate fraud than the extremes of human longevity. [7]

Despite demographic evidence of the known extremes of modern longevity, stories in otherwise reliable sources still surface regularly, stating that these extremes have been exceeded. Responsible, modern, scientific validation of human longevity requires investigation of records following an individual from birth to the present (or to death); purported longevity claims far outside the demonstrated records regularly fail such scrutiny.

Actuary Walter G. Bowerman stated that ill-founded longevity assertions originate mainly in remote, underdeveloped regions, among non-literate peoples, with only family testimony available as evidence. [8] This means that people living in areas of the world with historically more comprehensive resources for record-keeping have tended to hold more claims to longevity, regardless of whether or not individuals in other parts of the world have lived longer.

In the transitional period of record-keeping, records tend to exist for the wealthy and upper-middle classes, but are often spotty and nonexistent for the middle classes and the poor. In the United States, birth registration did not begin in Mississippi until 1912 and was not universal until 1933. [9] Hence, in many longevity cases, no actual birth record exists. This type of case is classified by gerontologists as "partially validated". [10]

Proximate records

Since some cases were recorded in a census or in other reliable sources, obtainable evidence may complete full verification.

Late-life records

In another type of case, the only records that exist are late-life documents. Because age inflation often occurs in adulthood (to avoid military service or to apply for a pension early), or because the government may have begun record-keeping during an individual's lifetime, cases unverified by proximate records exist. These unverified cases are less likely to be true (because the records are written later), but are still possible. Longevity narratives were not subjected to rigorous scrutiny until the work of William Thoms in 1873. Thoms proposed the 100th-birthday test: is there evidence to support an individual's claimed age at what would be their centenary birthday? [12] [13] This test does not prove a person's age, but does winnow out typical pension-claim longevity exaggerations and spontaneous claims that a certain relative is over 150.

Reports with complete date of birth

These are standardized lists of people whose lifespans remain unverified by proximate records, including both modern (Guinness-era) and historical cases. All cases in which an individual's supercentenarian lifespan is not (yet) backed by records sufficient to the standards of modern longevity research are listed as unverified. They may be factually true, even though records do not exist (or have not yet been found), so such lists include these grey-area cases.

Recent

These living supercentenarian cases, in descending order of claimed age, with full birth and review dates, have been updated within the past two years, but have not had their claimed age validated by an independent body such as the Gerontology Research Group or Guinness World Records. The list includes only those claims that are greater than the age of the oldest verified living person, Maria Branyas, who is currently aged 117 years, 37 days, but under 130 years.

NameSexReported birth dateClaimed AgeCountryLatest reportRef
Huvaydo UmarovaF1 January 1895129 years, 100 days Uzbekistan 9 July 2023 [24] [25] [26]
Sivananda M8 August 1896127 years, 246 days India 9 August 2023 [27] [28] [29]
Manuel Garcia HernandezM24 December 1896127 years, 108 days Mexico 2 February 2024 [30] [31]
Marcelino Abad TolentinoM5 April 1900124 years, 5 days Peru 9 April 2024 [32] [33] [34] [35]
Maria Gomes dos ReisF16 June 1900123 years, 299 days Brazil 3 May 2022 [36]
Sebastião Batista dos SantosM15 March 1902122 years, 26 daysBrazil15 March 2024 [37] [38]
Hussein Al-MissaouiM17 May 1904119 years, 329 days Tunisia 5 June 2023 [39]
Maria Vikentyevna KononovichF27 May 1904119 years, 319 days Belarus 18 January 2023 [40] [41] [42]
Lee Yong-geumF6 October 1904119 years, 187 days South Korea 2 June 2022 [43] [44]
Maria LuisaF3 February 1905119 years, 67 days Mozambique 6 September 2023 [45]
Rosa Zoila Higuera VelandiaF23 August 1906117 years, 231 days Colombia 9 March 2023 [46]
Margaret MaritzF27 September 1906117 years, 196 days South Africa 28 September 2022 [47]

Past

This table contains supercentenarian claims with either a known death date or no confirmation for more than two years that they were still alive. Only claims greater than that of Jeanne Calment, who died at the age of 122 years, 164 days, but under 130 years are included. They are listed in order of age as of the date of death or date last reported alive.

NameSexReported birth dateDeath date / latest reportReported ageCountry
Ali Ben Mohamed El Amri [48] [49] M5 October 1880fl. 30 September 2010129 years, 360 days Tunisia
Koku Istambulova [50] F1 June 188927 January 2019129 years, 240 days Russia
José Aguinelo dos Santos [51] M7 July 188820 December 2017129 years, 166 daysBrazil
Maria do Carmo Gerônimo [52] F5 March 187114 June 2000129 years, 101 daysBrazil
Jean Causeur [53] M3 March 164530 April 1774129 years, 58 days France
Mary Ewen [54] F5 May 187810 April 2007128 years, 340 days Jamaica
Cruz Hernández [52] F3 May 18788 March 2007128 years, 309 days El Salvador
Johanna Mazibuko [55] F11 May 18943 March 2023128 years, 296 days South Africa
Ese Gebelek [56] [57] [58] F1 July 189428 March 2023128 years, 270 days Turkey
Elizabeth Israel [52] F27 January 187514 October 2003128 years, 260 days Dominica
Safiah Ujang [59] F11 February 188926 October 2017128 years, 257 days Malaysia
Hermann Guntherberg (claims he is Adolf Hitler) [60] M20 April 188919 June 2017128 years, 60 days Argentina
José Rosario Serrano Arencas [61] M5 March 188124 April 2009128 years, 50 days Colombia
Swami Kalyandev [52] M21 June 187614 July 2004128 years, 23 daysIndia
William Johnson [62] M8 May 188115 May 2009128 years, 7 daysUnited States
José Paulino Gomes [63] [64] M4 August 189528 July 2023127 years, 358 daysBrazil
Ajiben Chandravadia [65] [66] F1 January 189113 December 2018127 years, 346 daysIndia
Luo Meizhen [67] [68] F9 July 18859 June 2013127 years, 335 days China
Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodríguez [69] F2 February 188524 December 2012127 years, 326 days Cuba
Luang Pu Chant Siri [70] [71] M10 April 184923 February 1977127 years, 319 days Thailand
Halim Solmaz [72] F1 July 188429 March 2012127 years, 272 days Turkey
Tshinyelo Dora Muzila [73] F4 May 188014 January 2008127 years, 255 days South Africa
Leandra Becerra Lumbreras F31 August 188719 March 2015127 years, 200 daysMexico
Tian Longyu [74] [75] [76] F9 June 189328 September 2020127 years, 111 daysChina
Nicolas Savin [77] M17 April 176829 November 1894126 years, 226 daysRussia
Maria Gonçalves dos Santos [78] F24 June 189015 December 2016126 years, 174 daysBrazil
Benito Martínez Abrogán [52] M19 June 188011 October 2006126 years, 114 daysCuba
Margarita Lacsi [79] [80] [81] F30 March 187827 May 2004126 years, 58 days Argentina
Jackson Pollard [52] M25 December 18697 September 1995125 years, 304 daysUnited States
Nuri Öztunç [82] M1 July 18856 March 2011125 years, 248 daysTurkey
Juan Ramos [52] M24 June 188024 January 2006125 years, 214 daysUnited States
Aberewa Grace [52] F16 August 187818 January 2004125 years, 155 days Ghana
Masoumeh Sanei Toroghi [83] F23 September 18986 February 2024125 years, 136 days Iraq
Anna Visser [52] F25 December 18788 January 2004125 years, 14 days Namibia
Maria Etelvina dos Santos [52] F15 July 18788 March 2003124 years, 236 daysBrazil
Hu Yeh-mei [84] F10 February 188524 August 2009124 years, 195 days Taiwan
Mariam Amash [85] [86] [87] F1 July 188822 December 2012 Israel
Socorro Medrano Guevara [88] F17 June 189413 September 2018124 years, 88 daysMexico
Francisca Susano [89] [90] F11 September 189722 November 2021124 years, 72 days Philippines
Armando Frid [52] [91] M24 May 186628 July 1990124 years, 65 daysArgentina
Maria Verissimo de Matos [92] [93] F5 June 188817 June 2012124 years, 12 daysBrazil
Sher Ali Mia [94] M17 July 1894fl. 10 July 2018123 years, 358 days Bangladesh
Ana Martinha da Silva [52] F25 August 188027 July 2004123 years, 337 daysBrazil
Carmelo Flores Laura [95] M16 July 18909 June 2014123 years, 328 days Bolivia
Deolinda Soares Rodrigues [96] F24 June 18981 May 2022123 years, 311 daysBrazil
Juana Chox Yac [97] [98] [99] [100] F29 November 189327 September 2017123 years, 302 days Guatemala
Arthur Reed [52] M28 June 186015 April 1984123 years, 292 daysUnited States
Tanzilya Bisembeyeva [101] [102] F14 March 189625 October 2019123 years, 225 days.Russia
Daw Mya Kyi [103] [104] [105] [106] F9 October 1892fl. 17 May 2016123 years, 221 days Myanmar
Hava Rexha [52] F14 August 18808 November 2003123 years, 86 days Albania
Appaz Iliev [107] MMarch 1, 1896May 10, 2019123 years, 70 daysRussia
Nguyễn Thị Trù [108] [109] F4 May 189312 July 2016123 years, 69 days Vietnam
Turupu Aimaiti [110] [111] M5 February 1892fl. 26 February 2015123 years, 21 daysChina
Live Larsdatter [112] F6 August 15759 July 1698122 years, 337 days Denmark
Shukhrat Aliyeva [113] F1 January 18871 December 2009122 years, 334 daysBrazil
Oberia Coffin [52] F1 December 188318 October 2006122 years, 321 daysUnited States
Sudhakar Chaturvedi [114] [115] M20 April 189727 February 2020122 years, 313 daysIndia
Nehemiah Ndur [116] M25 February 189010 December 2012122 years, 289 days Nigeria
Dora Jacobs [52] F6 May 188019 January 2003122 years, 258 daysSouth Africa
Mamie Evans [52] F2 July 187215 January 1995122 years, 197 daysUnited States
David Peterson [52] M22 November 185031 May 1973122 years, 190 daysUnited States
Sarah Hoover [52] F25 June 187415 December 1996122 years, 173 daysUnited States
Salma Abdulqadir [117] F1 July 189718 December 2019122 years, 170 days Syria

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