Jeanne Louise Calment (February 21, 1875 – August 4, 1997) reached the longest confirmed lifespan in history at 122 years and 164 days. Thanks Dr. Brickey
Shigechiyo Izumi lived 120 years 237 days
The chances of becoming the oldest person in the
world, is pretty unlikely, but only one person in today’s 6.3 billion
people is. However, that would be based on the number of babies born in
a given year.
The U.S.’s 1990 centenarian census:
In 1990, the United States had classified 37,206 centenarians, with
30,947 aged 100 to 104, and 6,359 aged 105 and above. 29,405 of them
were women and 7,901 of them were men.
In October of 2001, the U.S. Census
Bureau reported 50,454 centenarians out of 281.4 million Americans
(.01792963…) From present data, the number of centenarians worldwide
is around 450,000. But, the population of centenarians is far greater
than the population of supercentenarians.
