centenarian
Sign in to saveAlso known as person aged 100+, centenarians, confirmed centenarian, actual centenarian, Long-liver
thumb|right|Senator Strom Thurmond on his 100th birthday (December 5, 2002) thumb|, German architect, pictured on his 100th birthday in 2005 A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100. Because life expectancies at birth worldwide are well below 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. The United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians worldwide in 2012, and 573,000 in 2020, almost quadruple the 2000 estimate of 151,000.
Research
2,898 papers- Almost a Centenarian-Bold, Forward, and Networking.Mayo Clinic proceedings · 2023
- Healthy Lifestyle and the Likelihood of Becoming a Centenarian.JAMA network open · 2024
- The centenarian blueprint: lessons in defying Parkinson's disease.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2025
- Centenarian hippocampus displays high levels of astrocytic metallothioneins.Aging cell · 2024
- Centenarian clocks: epigenetic clocks for validating claims of exceptional longevity.GeroScience · 2023
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- cohort
- Subclass of
- person
- Followed by
- supercentenarian
- Image
- Mjalexander centenarians.jpg
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- has list
- lists of centenarians
- Commons category
- Centenarians
- topic's main category
- Category:Centenarians
- female form of label
- stoletá
- quantity
- 343000
- male form of label
- столетний долгожитель
- has characteristic
- age of a person
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Worldwide incidence by country
- Supercentenarians
- Recognition and congratulations
- History, blessings and traditions
- United States
- Asia
- Europe
- British and Commonwealth realms
- British traditions
- Centenarians in antiquity
- Research
- DNA repair
- Japanese bio-study
- Epigenetic studies
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|right|Senator Strom Thurmond on his 100th birthday (December 5, 2002) thumb|, German architect, pictured on his 100th birthday in 2005 A centenarian is a person who has reached the age of 100. Because life expectancies at birth worldwide are well below 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. The United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians worldwide in 2012, and 573,000 in 2020, almost quadruple the 2000 estimate of 151,000.
As world population and life expectancy continue to increase, the number of centenarians is expected to increase substantially in the 21st century. According to the Office of National Statistics in the United Kingdom, one-third of babies born in the country in 2013 are expected to live to 100.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “centenarian” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.