A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian) is
someone who has reached the age of 110. This age is achieved by about
one in 1,000 centenarians. Anderson et al. concluded that
supercentenarians live a life typically free of major age-related
diseases until shortly before maximum human lifespan is reached.The
Gerontology Research Group maintains a top 30â€"40 list of oldest
verified living people. The researchers estimate, based on a 0.15% to
0.25% survival rate of centenarians until the age of 110, that there
should be between 300 and 450 living supercentenarians in the world.
(See the List of the oldest living people for a top 100 of verified
ages.) A study conducted in 2010 by the Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research found 663 validated supercentenarians, living and
dead, and showed that the countries with the highest total number (not
frequency) of supercentenarians (in decreasing order) were the United
States, Japan, England plus Wales, France, and Italy. The first
verified supercentenarian in human history was Dutchman Geert Adriaans
Boomgaard (1788â€"1899), and it was not until the 1980s that the
oldest verified age surpassed 115.The term supercentenarian has been
in existence since at least the nineteenth century. The term
ultracentenarian has also been used to describe someone well over 100
â€" Norris McWhirter, editor of The Guinness Book of Records, used the
word in correspondence with age claims researcher A. Ross Eckler Jr.
in 1976, and it was further popularized in 1991 by William Strauss and
Neil Howe in their book Generations. Meanwhile, semisupercentenarian
has been used for the age range of 105â€"109 years. Early references
to supercentenarian tend to mean simply "someone well over 100", but
the 110-and-over cutoff is the accepted criterion of demographers.
someone who has reached the age of 110. This age is achieved by about
one in 1,000 centenarians. Anderson et al. concluded that
supercentenarians live a life typically free of major age-related
diseases until shortly before maximum human lifespan is reached.The
Gerontology Research Group maintains a top 30â€"40 list of oldest
verified living people. The researchers estimate, based on a 0.15% to
0.25% survival rate of centenarians until the age of 110, that there
should be between 300 and 450 living supercentenarians in the world.
(See the List of the oldest living people for a top 100 of verified
ages.) A study conducted in 2010 by the Max Planck Institute for
Demographic Research found 663 validated supercentenarians, living and
dead, and showed that the countries with the highest total number (not
frequency) of supercentenarians (in decreasing order) were the United
States, Japan, England plus Wales, France, and Italy. The first
verified supercentenarian in human history was Dutchman Geert Adriaans
Boomgaard (1788â€"1899), and it was not until the 1980s that the
oldest verified age surpassed 115.The term supercentenarian has been
in existence since at least the nineteenth century. The term
ultracentenarian has also been used to describe someone well over 100
â€" Norris McWhirter, editor of The Guinness Book of Records, used the
word in correspondence with age claims researcher A. Ross Eckler Jr.
in 1976, and it was further popularized in 1991 by William Strauss and
Neil Howe in their book Generations. Meanwhile, semisupercentenarian
has been used for the age range of 105â€"109 years. Early references
to supercentenarian tend to mean simply "someone well over 100", but
the 110-and-over cutoff is the accepted criterion of demographers.
Share this
SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER
SUBSCRIBE OUR NEWSLETTER
Join us for free and get valuable content delivered right through your inbox.