Validated worldwide supercentenarians, living and recently deceased.

BY DEFINITION, a validated supercentenarian is a properly documented centenarian who has lived to be at least the age of 110 years. The tables reproduced below and various other tables of supercentenarians are regularly updated by Dr. Stephen Coles, one of the members of our Editorial Board, along with other members of the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group (GRG). For further details, please contact them through their website at http://www.grg.org/. During 2009, we will publish six different tables and graphs from the GRG’s data, following the sequence published in Rejuvenation Research in 20071–4 and 2008.5–10 Accordingly, in this issue we give the latest list of living supercentenarians and the list of those who died in the past year. As of January 20, 2009, there were 89 living supercentenarians on our list (82 females and 7 males); 54 died in 2008, and 6 in 2009.