In supplement to the national longevity recordholders page, this page is for the oldest people currently still alive in a certain country. As comprehensive birth registration largely came into being in the 20th century and no one born in that century has yet reached supercentenarian age, records are necessarily fragmentary. The earliest comprehensive recordkeeping systems arose in Europe, the only place that any persons born in the 19th century can be documented above the level of longevity myths. For example, the UK organized a central recordkeeping system for England and Wales in 1837, which was compulsory by 1874.
This article gives the recordholders for various countries to the extent that they have been established. Each country covered has produced at least one person who reached the age of 110 or more. Most recordholders are female with male recordholders being noted. Those born in one country who moved to another are identified. Countries are listed in order of the age of the present recordholder.
This article uses links to those who have biographies and boldfaces the names of those who do not. It should not be assumed that every person mentioned in an article therefore merits his or her own article.
For a global overview of living longevity recordholders see the supercentenarian article, for the need to treat exaggerated claims with skepticism given the extreme documented mortality curves see the longevity myths article. For the oldest people ever in a certain country: see national longevity recordholders.
Australia
Myra Nicholson is currently the oldest living Australian woman (born December 14, 1894), age 112.
Frank Scarrabelotti is the oldest living Australian male at present (born August 4, 1897), age 109.
Austria
Hermina Dunz (born February 24, 1898) of Graz is Austria's current oldest living person, age 109.
As of January 2007, the government registry indicates the oldest Austrian male was born in Jan 1899. He has not been publicly identified.
Belgium
Irma Van de Voorde-Notteboom (born 2 November, 1897) is the oldest inhabitant, at 109.
Wannes Annemans (born February 25, 1902) is very likely, at age 105, the oldest male.
Canada
Mary Josephine Ray (born May 17, 1895) is the oldest living person born in Canada at age 111. She now lives in the US.
Mary Ann Scoles (born December 25, 1896) is the oldest living verified Canadian at age 110. However, a woman in Ontario claims to be 111, but this has not been verified.
Ernest MacPherson (born January 11, 1899) is very likely to be the oldest Canadian man at age 108.
China
Du Pinhua claims to be the oldest person in China (allegedly born April 22, 1886), but there is currently no way to verify who the oldest Chinese person is.
Czech Republic
Marie Kraslova, born November 13, 1898, is the oldest living Czech, age 108.
Denmark
01.01.2007: The two oldest females were born in 1899, age 107, living in Roskilde (Magda Hedegaard) and Middelfart.
01.01.2007: The two oldest living native Danish males, born 1901, age 105, living in Esbjerg (Martin Gammelgaard, born 29.09.1901) and Holstebro.
Estonia
Elisabet Pärkson (born December 22, 1899) is the oldest living Estonian, age 107.
Finland
Aarne Arvonen (born August 4, 1897) is the oldest living Finn, age 109.
France
Marie-Simone Capony is, at age 113, the French doyenne, born March 14, 1894.
Aimé Avignon is, at age 110, the French doyen, born February 2, 1897.
Germany
Irmgard von Stephani (born September 20, 1895) is the oldest living German, age 111.
Wilhelm Remmert (born November 15, 1899) is the oldest living male in Germany, age 107.
Hungary
Elizabeth Stefan (born 13 May, 1895) is the oldest living person born in Hungary at age 111. She now lives in the US.
Italy
The oldest living Italian woman is Rosaria Caleca, born February 5, 1895 in Italy, age 112, but living in the U.S.
Ida Frabboni-Saletta is the oldest living resident woman, born October 4, 1896, age 110.
The oldest living Italian man is Lazzaro Ponticelli, born December 7, 1897 in Italy, age 109, but living in France.
Delfino Borroni is the oldest living resident man, born August 23, 1898, age 108.
Japan
Yone Minagawa is the world's oldest living person, age 114, born January 4, 1893.
Tomoji Tanabe is the world's oldest living man, age 111, born September 18, 1895.
Netherlands
Grietje Jansen-Anker (born 12 September, 1897) is the oldest living Dutch woman, age 109.
Johannes Leendert van der Giessen (born 17 December, 1899) is the oldest living Dutch man. He is also the last living Dutchman born in the 19th century, age 107.
Norway
Gunda Harangen (born 28 December, 1898) of Kongsberg is the oldest living Norwegian woman, age 108.
Jørgen Bernhard Rustad (born 12 August, 1900) of Gjøvik is the oldest living male currently, age 106.
Poland
Józefa Olszewska (born 4 February, 1899) is the oldest living Pole, aged 108. [1]
Józef Kowalski (born 2 February, 1900) is the oldest living Polish man, age 107. [2]
Portugal
Maria de Jesus is the oldest living Portuguese person, born September 10, 1893, age 113. She is also the oldest living European after the death of the French supercentenarian Camille Loiseau in August 2006.
Augusto Oliveira Moreira (born October 6, 1896) is the oldest living Portuguese male, age 110.
Spain
Manuela Fernandez-Fojaco (born June 18, 1895) is the oldest living Spaniard, age 111.
Mariano Pindado (born October 4, 1898) is the oldest living male, age 108 (may be deceased). [citation needed]
Sweden
Astrid Zachrison (born May 15, 1895) is the oldest living Swede at 111.
Bengt Helldal (born February 14, 1900) is the oldest male, age 107.
Switzerland
Rosa Rein (born March 24, 1897) is the oldest living Swiss, age 110.
Ukraine
Hryhoriy Nestor claims to be the oldest person in Ukraine and in the world (born March 15, 1891), but there is no veritable source which checks his alleged very advanced age.
United Kingdom
Florrie Baldwin (born March 31, 1896) is the oldest person living in the UK at age 111.
Henry Allingham (born June 6, 1896) is the oldest living man, at age 110.
United States
Edna Parker (born April 20, 1893) is, at age 114, the oldest living American.
George Francis (born June 6, 1896) is, at age 110, the oldest living man in America.