It includes the individual(s) for each given country or territory who are reported to have had the longest lifespan.
Comprehensive birth registration is largely a 20th-century phenomenon, so records establishing human longevity are necessarily fragmentary.
For example, the United Kingdom organized a central recordkeeping system for England and Wales in 1837, making it compulsory by 1874.
[1] This list comprises longest-lived individuals who were born and are living or died in each country.
Where known, records for both males and females are noted, as are those born in one country who emigrated to another.