Verified Oldest People in History
About This Dataset
Verified Oldest People in History
Ages of the longest-lived people whose dates have been independently verified, in decimal years. Verification is the whole difficulty: many claimed ages beyond 115 fail when documents are checked, so this list is much shorter than the list of people who have claimed such ages.
Analysis
Jeanne Calment of France lived 122 years, 164 days, 1154 days longer than Kane Tanaka, the second-oldest verified person. Every person on this chart lived past 117. 4 of the 12 were Japanese and 2 American. Across the full list of 100, the United States accounts for 36.
Key Findings
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Jeanne Calment leads in Age at Death (years) with 122.45 in 2026.
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Average Age at Death (years) in 2026: 118 · median: 118.
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Gap in 2026: Jeanne Calment is 1× larger than Misao Okawa.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia, List of the verified oldest people
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 2026 · 12 observations
- Measure
- Age at Death (years)
- Last updated
- 7 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2026.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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