The Oldest People in the World

The world's second-oldest person, Edie Ceccarelli, is turning 116 today and has for several years celebrated with a drive-by parade in Willits, Northern California. The Supercentenarian is surpassed in age only by the world's oldest living human, U.S. born Maria Branyas Morera. This means that the two oldest people currently living both hail from the United States. Branyas Morera now resides in Spain.

The list of the oldest people in the world reshuffled after the death of France's Lucile Randon at the age of 118 around a year ago and the passing of Fusa Tatsumi in Japan in December at the age of 116. While it's mostly women who reach the status of the world's oldest, one man - Venezuela's Juan Vincente Perez Mora - is among the top 10 at an age of almost 115 years. The countries of birth most represented among this group of people are Japan and the United States; accounting for two and three, respectively. All entries have been validated by the Gerontology Research Group.

Do these 'supercentenarians' have any advice for living for so long? Emma Morano, who was born in 1899 and died in 2017 at the age of 117 was thought to have been the last person alive to have lived in three different centuries. The Italian apparently put her long life down to leaving her husband in 1938 and the consumption of two raw eggs and some raw minced meat every day.