How old is the worlds oldest person

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Biden and Xi to hold virtual summit on November 15 1 hour ago. Read More. India's born-again elephants repel four-legged rampages. Thieves rip bitcoin ATM from Barcelona crypto-store. While some scientists argue that disease and basic cell deterioration lead to a natural limit on human lifespan, others maintain there is no cap, as evidenced by record-breaking supercentenarians.

Pearce and Adrian Raftery , a professor of sociology and of statistics at the UW, took a different approach. They asked what the longest individual human lifespan could be anywhere in the world by the year Using Bayesian statistics, a common tool in modern statistics, the researchers estimated that the world record of years almost certainly will be broken, with a strong likelihood of at least one person living to anywhere between and years. To calculate the probability of living past — and to what age — Raftery and Pearce turned to the most recent iteration of the International Database on Longevity , created by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

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The Women's Podcast. Advertising Feature. Austin Currie obituary: Stalwart of northern and southern Irish politics Tyrone man achieved rare distinction of making political impact on both sides of border. The last person to hold the record for the oldest person living male was Bob Weighton UK, b. Bob sadly passed away due to cancer on Thursday 28 May His family confirmed that he died peacefully in his sleep at his flat in Alton, Hampshire, UK.

The record was previously held by Chitetsu Watanabe Japan, b. He passed away on 23 February Chitetsu said in an interview for a local paper in January that the secret to his longevity was to "not to get angry and keep a smile on your face".

They met when Waldramina went to visit her sister who happened to live in the same building as Julio. The oldest married couple have a combined age of years and days verified 23 June - Julio was born before the RMS Titanic sank.