List of alleged brazilian supercentenarians
This is an incomplete list of alleged brazilian supercentenarians (people who may have attained the age of at least 110 years and 0 days), ordered by date of birth. None of these claims are recognized by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).
Brazilian Supercentenarians by rank
These, were made or updated on or after the 1st of , {{#expr: - 2}}.
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These claims, with full birthdate, were not updated within the past two years.
Name |
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Birth date |
Last update |
Age |
Nelson Schneider |
M |
1 January 1879 |
2008 |
>128 years |
Floripes Luzia Damásio |
F |
13 December 1889 |
2005 |
>115 years |
Analysis
In October 2007, the Brazilian National Intitute of Wellfare declared 159 as the number of brazilian supercentenarians, which corresponds to about a supercentenarian per million of inhabitants. Japan, which is the country with world's larger life expectancy, has a rate six times lower. The large amount of age claims larger than 120 years is the remarkable aspect of extreme longevity allegations in Brazil. One should remember that only one case of longevity beyond the 120 years is considered proved. The systematical study of these brazilian cases have not been performed yet. The validation or debunking of these cases is difficult since none of the claimants has given any documentation to the GRG, and there is a lack of state records.
Centenarian people were the oldest brazilian population that was object of relevant statiscal studies. This survey, made in Brazil in 2008, compares the number of centenarian people with the 85-year-old people. In 1991, a rate of 16.0% was found for Brazil. If this figure was considered true, Brazil would be in a comfortable first place, among the studied countries, being United States in the second position with a "modest" 5.8% rate. Using statistical methods, the authors of this survey tried to calculate the real number of brazilian centenarians. Depending of the region, they concluded that the real number of centenarians might be between two and sixteen times smaller than the number of claims. Thus, there is a general tendency for age exaggeration, and people claming to be 100, 110 or 120 years old may be several years younger. Although statistics say that this number of supercentenarian claimants does not make sence, it is impossible to make sure that each of these people is lying. The GRG specialists agree that age claims beyond 120 years old have a non-zero probability of being true. It is generally accepted that claims beyond 130 years old are considered untrue and thus called "age myths".
References
pt:Anexo:Lista de supercentenários brasileiros