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A centenarian is a person who lives to or beyond the age of 100 years. Because life expectancies everywhere are less than 100, the term is invariably associated with longevity. A supercentenarian is a person who has lived to the age of 110 or more, something only achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Even rarer is a person who has lived to age 115 – there are only 40 people in recorded history who have indisputably reached this age,
In 2012, the United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians worldwide. As life expectancy is increasing across the world, and the world population has also increased rapidly, the number of centenarians is expected to increase quickly in the future. According to the UK ONS, one-third of babies born in 2013 in the UK are expected to live to 100.
The purpose of this exercise is to recognise Goan Individuals who have reached this magical figure - the oldest of whom lived until age 112.
- Project Founder: Jules Fausto Mendonça de Sá
- Project Main Collaborator: Sebastião José Roiz