1. 119 years, 107 days : Kane Tanaka (Japan) Jan. 02, 1903 - Apr. 19, 2022

2. 119 years, 097 days : Sarah Knauss (U.S. (PA)) Sept. 24, 1880 - Dec. 30, 1999

3. 118 years, 340 days : Lucile Randon (France) Feb. 11, 1904 - Jan. 17, 2023

4. 117 years, 260 days : Nabi Tajima (Japan) Aug 04, 1900 - Apr. 21, 2018

5. 117 years, 230 days : Marie-Louise Meilleur (Canada (QUE)) Aug. 29, 1880 - Apr. 16, 1998

6. 117 years, 189 days : Violet Brown (Jamaica) Mar. 10, 1900 - Sept. 15, 2017

7. 117 years, 168 days : Maria Branyas (Spain) Mar. 4 1907 - Aug. 19, 2024

8. 117 years, 137 days : Emma Morano (Italy) Nov. 29, 1899 - Apr. 15, 2017

9. 117 years, 81 days : Chiyo Miyako (Japan) May 02, 1901 - July 22, 2018

10. 117 years, 66 days : Delphia Welford (United States) Sept. 9 1875 - Nov. 14, 1992

11. 117 years, 27 days : Misao Okawa (Japan) Mar. 05, 1898 - Apr. 01, 2015

12. 116 years, 349 days : Francisca Celsa dos Santos (Brazil) Oct. 21 1904 - Oct. 5, 2021.

13. 116 years, 347 days : Maria Esther Capovilla (Ecuador) Sept. 14, 1889 - Aug. 27, 2006

14. 116 years, 326 days : Inah Canabarro Lucas (Brazil) 8 June 1908 - 30 April 2025]

15. 116 years, 311 days : Susannah Mushatt Jones (United States) July 6, 1899 - May 12, 2016

16. 116 years, 276 days : Gertrude Weaver (United States) July 4, 1898 - Apr. 6, 2015

17. 116 years, 224 days : Antonia da Santa Cruz (Brazil) June 13, 1905 - Jan. 23, 2022

18. 116 years, 220 days : Tomiko Itooka (Japan) 23 May 1908 - 29 Dec. 2024

19. 116 years, 175 days : Tane Ikai (Japan) Jan. 18, 1879 - July 12, 1995

20. 116 years, 128 days : Jeanne Bot (France) Jan. 14, 1905 - May 22, 2021

[Note: Even discounting the contested Calment case, this list of the oldest supercentenarians ever, all female, is almost certainly incomplete. But no human in history has yet indisputably survived into their thirteenth decade, or even lived to be 120. Maximum human longevity has plateaued out.]

Oldest Living Person

• 115 years, 270+ days : Ethel Caterham (England) 21 August 1909 - [fl. May 2025]

PROGRESSIVE LIST OF CURRENTLY AUTHENTICATED WORLD RECORDHOLDERS

• Delina (Ecker) Filkins : 113 years, 214 days  (04 May 1815 - 04 December 1928)
• Sarah Knauss        : 119 years, 97 days  (24 Sept 1880 - 30 December 1999)
• Kane Tanaka        : 119 years, 107 days  (02 January 1903 - 19 April 2022)
  
  
  

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