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In supplement to the list of oldest people by nation article, which is for the oldest people ever in a certain country, this page is for the oldest people currently alive by country. As comprehensive birth registration didn't become widespread until well into the 20th century in some areas, and some have been destroyed supercentenarian status is difficult to verify in some regions. The earliest comprehensive recordkeeping systems arose in Europe, the only place that any persons born in the first two thirds of the 19th century can be documented according to modern standards. For example, the United Kingdom organized a central recordkeeping system for England and Wales in 1837, which was compulsory by 1874. Countries like Japan and the United States which have relatively large numbers of supercentenarians had sufficient recordkeeping by the 1890/1900s, when their supers living in the second decade of the twenty-first century were born.

This article gives the incumbents in various countries, where known, specifying the degree of certitude. Those born in one country who moved to another are so identified.

Some of the below may be recognized by their nation as at least 110 years old (the minimum age to qualify for the world's oldest people list) but have not been internationally verified.

Current Doyenne/Dean

  Under 110   Verified supercentenarian   Pending supercentenarian   Unverified supercentenarian

Country	Name	Sex	Birth date	Age as of 26 December
Algeria	Marcelle Narbonne (lives in France)	F	25 March 1898	126 years, 276 days
Antigua and Barbuda	Irene Carlos	F	23 January 1902	122 years, 338 days
	William Kirwan	M	28 March 1904	120 years, 273 days
Argentina	María Juana Martínez	F	7 May 1898	126 years, 233 days
Australia	Miriam Schmierer	F	20 August 1899	125 years, 128 days
	Claude Choules (born in the UK)	M	3 March 1901	123 years, 298 days
Austria	Hermine Nistler	F	24 December 1900	124 years, 2 days
	Franz Harrer	M	17 May 1904	120 years, 223 days
Barbados	James Sisnett	M	22 February 1900	124 years, 308 days
	Barbara Wickham	F	24 August 1903	121 years, 124 days
Belgium	Adrienne Ledent	F	13 December 1899	125 years, 13 days
	Jan Goossenaerts	M	30 October 1900	124 years, 57 days
Botswana	Kebuang Tsebe	F	1 January 1902	122 years, 360 days
Canada	Sum Ying Fung (born in China)	F	27 January 1899	125 years, 334 days
Chile	Margarita Arriagada	F	17 December 1897	127 years, 9 days
Croatia	Lina Miljan	F	5 June 1905	119 years, 204 days
Czech Republic	Marie Třešňáková	F	29 November 1903	121 years, 27 days
	Gabriel Miksa	M	8 September 1904	120 years, 109 days
Denmark	Else Lundblad	F	24 September 1901	123 years, 93 days
	Unidentified	M	Jul.-Sept. 1904	≥120 years, 87 days
Dominican Republic	José Lantigua Ramírez	M	14 August 1900	124 years, 134 days
Estonia	Maria Orutalu	F	July 1903	≥121 years, 148 days
	Unidentified	M	31 December 1906	117 years, 361 days
Finland	Unidentified	F	1902	≥121 years, 361 days
	Unidentified	M	1905	≥118 years, 361 days
France	Mathilde Aussant	F	27 February 1898	126 years, 303 days
	André Coudrat	M	9 July 1902	122 years, 170 days
Germany	Charlotte Bauch	F	12 October 1900	124 years, 75 days
	Friedrich Volmer	M	13 September 1902	122 years, 104 days
Hungary	Gallai Rezső	M	29 January 1904	120 years, 332 days
Indonesia	Unidentified (Various)	?	as far back as 1853	Various persons claim to be and are recognized by the Indonesian government as being between 130 and 157.
Italy	Venere Pizzinato	F	23 November 1896	128 years, 33 days
	Giovanni Ligato	M	18 February 1901	123 years, 312 days
Japan	Chiyono Hasegawa	F	20 November 1896	128 years, 36 days
	Jiroemon Kimura	M	19 April 1897	127 years, 251 days
Latvia	Unidentified (born elsewhere)	?	1898	≥125 years, 361 days
	Unidentified	?	1900	≥123 years, 361 days
Mexico	Soledad Mexia (lives in the USA)	F	13 August 1899	125 years, 135 days
Netherlands	Unidentified (born elsewhere)	F	1901	≥122 years, 361 days
	Geertruida Draaisma	F	25 February 1902	122 years, 305 days
	Cornelis Geurtz	M	4 May 1902	122 years, 236 days
New Zealand	Lena Ray	F	19 January 1902	122 years, 342 days
Norway	Helene Nilsen	F	7 April 1901	123 years, 263 days
	Håkon Skøien	M	29 December 1905	118 years, 363 days
Poland	Marianna Ostrowska	F	5 August 1897	127 years, 143 days
	Józef Kowalski	M	2 February 1900	124 years, 328 days
Portugal	Maria Nunes da Silva	F	7 July 1898	126 years, 172 days
Romania	Ecaterina Găman	F	24 July 1904	120 years, 155 days
Saint Kitts and Nevis	Florence Baker	F	19 November 1898	126 years, 37 days
Slovakia	Hedviga Sekerášová	F	26 October 1902	122 years, 61 days
	Štefan Novotný	M	20 December 1904	120 years, 6 days
South Korea	Kim Eom-gok	F	7 November 1897	127 years, 49 days
Spain	Francisco Fernández	M	25 July 1901	123 years, 154 days
	Francisca García	F	13 September 1901	123 years, 104 days
Sweden	Ester Johansson	F	25 March 1902	122 years, 276 days
	Sven Hedberg	M	13 December 1903	121 years, 13 days
Switzerland	Pierre Gremion	M	5 March 1902	122 years, 296 days
Trinidad and Tobago	Subhagiya Sarran	F	13 December 1901	123 years, 13 days
United Kingdom	Margaret Fish	F	7 March 1899	125 years, 294 days
	Unidentified	M	26 May 1902	122 years, 214 days
United States	Besse Cooper	F	26 August 1896	128 years, 122 days
	Walter Breuning	M	21 September 1896	128 years, 96 days

a Narbonne was born in French Algeria. It is now Algeria.
b Kowalski was born in Smerekivka/Wicyń, which was then a part of Austria-Hungary, later part of Poland; it is now in Ukraine.

Territorial recordholders

Country	Territory	Name	Sex	Birth date	Age as of 26 December
France	New Caledonia	Joséphine Robelin	F	26 January 1906	118 years, 335 days
	Réunion	Marie-Cressence Madacène	F	28 August 1903	121 years, 120 days
Netherlands	Curaçao	Maria Seferina-Leitu	F	22 April 1903	121 years, 248 days
United Kingdom	Cayman Islands	Daisy Christian	F	10 March 1904	120 years, 291 days
	Saint Helena	Hilda Clingham	F	23 July 1910	114 years, 156 days
United States	Puerto Rico	Antonia Gerena Rivera (lives in the USA)	F	19 May 1900	124 years, 221 days

References

1. ^ Validated Living Supercentenarians
2. Report on Irene Carlos's 108th birthday
3. ^ Report on the oldest living people in Antigua and Barbuda
4. Report on María Juana Martínez at the claimed age of 112 Template:Es icon
6. ^ The Oldest Human Beings
7. Report on Franz Harrer at the age of 106 Template:De icon
8. Report on the oldest living people in Austria
9. Report on Barbara Wickam at the age of 107
10. Report on Kebuang Tsebe at the age of 109
11. Report on Sum Ying Fung's claimed 112th birthday
12. Report on Margarita Arriagada at the claimed age of 112 Template:Es icon
13. Report on Margarita Arriagada at the claimed age of 112 Template:Es icon
14. Report on Lina Miljan becoming the new country record holder Template:Hr icon
15. Report on Lina Miljan's 105th birthday Template:Hr icon
16. ^ Report on the oldest living people in the Czech Republic Template:Cs icon
17. Report on Marie Třešňáková becoming the new country record holder Template:Cs icon
18. Report on Gabriel Miksa's 106th birthday Template:Cs icon
19. ^ Report on the oldest living people in Denmark Template:Da icon
20. Report on José Lantigua Ramírez at the claimed age of 110 Template:Es icon
21. Report on Maria Orutalu at the age of 107 Template:Et icon
22. Report on the oldest living people in Estonia Template:Et icon
23. Report on Estonia's oldest man at the age of 103 Template:Et icon
24. ^ Report on the oldest living people in Finland
25. Report on André Coudrat at the age of 108 Template:Fr icon
26. Report on Friedrich Volmer at the age of 108
27. Report on Gallai Rezső's 107th birthday Template:Hu icon
28. Indonesian Central Statistics Bureau
29. Report of 140 y.o male
30. Jakarta Globe on Katemi
31. Toronto Sun on Turinah
32. Report on Giovanni Ligato's claimed 110th birthday Template:It icon
33. ^ Report on the oldest living people in Latvia Template:Lv icon
34. Report on the oldest living people in the Netherlands
35. Report on Geertruida Draaisma's 109th birthday Template:Nl icon
36. Report on Cornelis Geurtz becoming the new country male record holder Template:Nl icon
37. Report on Lena Ray's 109th birthday
38. ^ Report on the oldest living people in Norway Template:No icon
39. Report on Håkon Skøien Template:No icon
40. Report on Marianna Ostrowka at the claimed age of 113 Template:Pl icon
41. Report on Józef Kowalski's claimed 111th birthday Template:Pl icon
42. Report on Ecaterina Găman's 106th birthday Template:Ro icon
43. Report on Florence Baker at the claimed age of 112
44. Report on Hedviga Sekerášová's 108th birthday Template:Sk icon
45. Report on Štefan Novotný's 105th birthday Template:Sk icon
46. Report on Štefan Novotný at the age of 106 Template:Sk icon
47. Report on Kim Eom-gok at the claimed age of 113
48. ^ Report on the oldest living people in Spain
49. Report on Francisco Fernández becoming the new country male record holder
50. Report on Francisco Fernández's 109th birthday Template:Es icon
51. Report on Ester Johannson's 108th birthday Template:Sv icon
52. ^ Template:Sv icon
53. Report on Sven Hedberg at the age of 105 Template:Sv icon
54. Report on Pierre Gremion at the age of 108 Template:Fr icon
55. Report on Subhagiya Sarran at the age of 106
56. Report on Subhagiya Sarran at the age of 109
57. Report on the oldest living people in Britain
58. Report on Joséphine Robelin's 104th birthday Template:Fr icon
59. Report on Marie-Cressence Madacène's 107th birthday Template:Fr icon
60. Report on Marie-Cressence Madacène being born in 1903
61. Report on Maria Seferina-Leito's 107th birthday Template:Nl icon
62. Report on Daisy Christian's 106th birthday
63. Report on Hilda Clingham's 100th birthday

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