Most Number of People Living in the Top 100, List at 1 Time

My expectation (when I'm in an optimistic mood) is that thanks to life extension technology, in the future we will have a period when all or most of the people in the top 100 list are still living because they've all received therapy that allows them to live past 122. Someday there might have to be two top-100 lists: a historical, "natural aging" list with Jeanne Calment at or near the top, and a modern list of super-agers who have received gene therapy or whatever.

But until/unless that happens, I agree that it's going to get harder and harder for a living person to get onto even the lowest reaches of the top 100 list. I don't think we'll see no living members on the list until #100 is at least 115 years old, though.

You see: suppose the life expectancy increases suddenly by one year. The result is that the number of living 114ers doubles. So we would have (only) about 10 living SCs in the top-10. To have most of the top 100 made of living SC, the life expectancy should increase by 3-4 years in a very short amount of time, which is irrealistic.

Unless a cure to amyloidosis or aging is found and becomes quickly available to everyone.

That's exactly what I meant by "irrealistic" ;-)

That's exactly what I meant by "irrealistic" ;-)

I don't think that a cure to amyloidosis within the next 50-75 years is that unrealistic, though. A cure to aging, on the other hand, is a completely different matter.

That's exactly what I meant by "irrealistic" ;-)

I don't think that a cure to amyloidosis within the next 50-75 years is that unrealistic, though. A cure to aging, on the other hand, is a completely different matter.

Actually, I am not saying that a cure is so impossible in the next 50-75 years. What I am saying is that, when (if) a cure is found, it will not be applied to all living SCs so quickly to make living SCs take over the top-100-ever list. If the process takes, say, 10 years, you will probably see at your best 15 living in the top-100.

The fact is that, with 15 living in the top-100, the cut-off age to enter such a list will probably increase faster than the life-span increase.

Excluding disputed cases now we have 7 living SC in the Top 100:
Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Guerri, Mr. Kimura, Mrs. Okawa, Mrs. Nakamura, Mrs. Rearden and Mrs. Ono.
(We hope Mrs. Nakamura and and Mrs. Ono are alive )

Update: today we have 6 living SC in the Top 100:
Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Guerri, Mr. Kimura, Mrs. Okawa, Mrs. Rearden and Mrs. Ono.
(we hope Mrs. Ono is alive)

Does this mean that Misawo Okawa is alive?

Does this mean that Misawo Okawa is alive?

I think that either Okawa or the 1897 Japanese mystery woman is still alive, but I'm not sure if they know which one yet.

Does this mean that Misawo Okawa is alive?

I think that either Okawa or the 1897 Japanese mystery woman is still alive, but I'm not sure if they know which one yet.

Both are still alive

Now Mrs.Koto Okubo needs to included!

She is now already on spot 35 and already have surpassed Eugénie Blanchard!!

Lets hope Hatsue Ono doesnt end up in limbo....because then it will be 8!!

Fact: Mrs Koto Okubo has already surpassed Christina Cock to become the oldest person ever to be born in December!

it is still 7 because of the death of Kame Nakamura

it is still 7 because of the death of Kame Nakamura

Yes, I have realize my mistake

We could have as much as 9 living SCs in the top 100 before Marie Therese Bardet's death

Update: today we have 6 living SC in the Top 100:
Mrs. Guerri, Mr. Kimura, Mrs. Okubo, Mrs. Okawa, Mrs. Rearden and Mrs. Ono.
(RIP Mrs. Cooper)