The following are 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, LongeviQuest, or ''

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'', and others who have otherwise been reliably sourced. The longest documented and verified human lifespan is that of

Jeanne Calment Jeanne Louise Calment (; 21 February 1875 – 4 August 1997) was a French supercentenarian. With a documented lifespan of 122 years and 164 days, she was the oldest people, oldest person in history whose age has been verified. Her longevity at ...

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(1875–1997), a woman who lived to the age of 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

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(1897–2013), who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days. The oldest living person in the world whose age has been validated is Ethel Caterham of the

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, who has lived . She was born on 21 August 1909. The oldest living verified man is João Marinho Neto of

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, who has lived . He was born on 5 October 1912.

Ten oldest verified people

Systematic verification of longevity has only been practiced since the 1950s and only in certain parts of the world. All ten oldest verified people ever are female. The longest documented and verified human lifespan is that of

of France, a woman who lived to age 122 years and 164 days. She received news media attention in 1985, after turning 110. Calment's claim was investigated and authenticated by Jean-Marie Robine and Dr. Michel Allard for the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). Her longevity claim was put into question in 2018, but the original assessing team stood by their judgement.

Oldest people (all women)

Oldest men

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Ten oldest living people

Oldest living people (all women)

Oldest living men

Chronological list of the oldest known living person since 1951

This table lists the sequence of the world's oldest known living person from 1951 to present, according to GRG research and the

. Due to the

life expectancy Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age. The most commonly used measure is ''life expectancy at birth'' (LEB, or in demographic notation ''e''0, where '' ...

difference between sexes, nearly all the oldest living people have been women (thus the

maximum life span Maximum life span (or, for humans, maximum reported age at death) is a measure of the maximum amount of time one or more members of a population have been observed to survive between birth and death. The term can also denote an estimate of the maxi ...

is guided by the female numbers); a sequence of the oldest living men is provided below the main list.

Chronological list of the oldest living man since 1951

This table lists the sequence of the world's oldest known living man from 1951 to present.

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