Oldest Verified Men in History
Key Findings
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Oldest Verified Men in HistoryJiroemon Kimura (116y 54d) is the clear outlier and the only verified man ever to exceed 116, sitting roughly half a year above Christian Mortensen (115y 252d) and Emiliano Mercado del Toro (115y 156d). After the top three, the list compresses tightly: five men between Juan Vicente Pérez (114y 311d) and Joan Riudavets (114y 81d) are all separated by less than a year, showing how sharply male survival curves flatten past 114. The geography is strikingly diverse - Japan, the USA, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Peru, the Dominican Republic and Spain all appear - unlike the female record list dominated by Japan and Europe. Notably, the oldest man ever still falls six years short of Jeanne Calment's overall human record of 122.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia - List of the Verified Oldest Men
- Coverage
- 10 entities · 10 observations
- Measure
- Verified Age (years)
- Last updated
- 12 July 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- 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.
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