In China, 60 years old is called Huajia, 70 years old is called Gu Xi, 80 years old is called 耄耋 (mào dié), 90 years old is called mackerel, and 100 years old is called period of Yi and period of the year. People over the age of 100 in the world are also known as Renrui. People over the age of 110 are called ultra. Only about 1 in every 1,000 centenarians is likely to be produced.
In modern China, the 100-year-old celebrities are:
Zhang Xueliang (101 years old), Yang Zhenning (100 years old), Song Meiling (106 years old), Ba Jin (101 years old), Su Buqing (101 years old), Bingxin (100 years old), Yang Jiang (105 years old), Chen Lifu (101 years old), Lu Zhengcao (105 years old), and Wang Fuzhi, the founding major general.
According to the United Nations Population Division, more than 62 people over the age of 100 were in the world in 202110 thousand. This number is expected to exceed 1 million by 2030. According to the United Nations, the number of people per 100,000 people who live to be 100 years old is only about 8.
However, 33 years ago, in 1990, there were only 920,000 people will live to be 100 years old.
In 2020, there were about 57 centenarians worldwide30 thousand.
According to a number of data, the ranking of the population over 100 years old in the world is:
China, the United States, Russia, Japan, Spain, Italy, France, South Korea, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Egypt, Poland, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Algeria, Spain, South Africa, Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Jordan, Denmark, Norway, Paraguay, Belarus, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, Portugal, etc.
In 2019, there were more than 100,000 centenarians in the United States, of whom three-quarters were women. It is one of the countries with the highest number of centenarians in the world. Recent data shows that the number of centenarians in the United States has exceeded 1230,000 people. The male-to-female ratio is 1:33。
In Japan, centenarians account for the largest percentage of the world's population. According to relevant data, in Japan, the number of people aged 100 and above accounts for 6/10,000 of the country's total population. On average, 34 per 100,000 peopleEighty-five were centenarians.
In 1981, the number of centenarians in Japan reached 1,000, in 1998 it exceeded 10,000, and as of September 2023, there are more than 90,000 centenarians in Japan, which is the 53rd consecutive year of growth in the centenarian population.
According to the 2017 census, there are 67,824 centenarians in Japan. In 2022, the number exceeded 90,000, of which 89 percent were women.
The longest-lived woman in Japan is Tatsumi Fusa (115) from Kashiwahara City, Osaka Prefecture, and the longest-lived man is Shigeru Nakamura (111) from Kamigoshi Kogen Town, Hiroshima Prefecture.
In 1963, there were 153 centenarians nationwide, 1,000 in 1981, 10,000 in 1998, and an upward trend since then.
Looking at each prefecture, Shimane Prefecture has the highest number of centenarians per 100,000 people, with an average of 14241 people, the least in Saitama Prefecture, an average of 4362 people, a difference of more than three times. The overall situation is high in the west and low in the east, especially in metropolitan areas such as the Kanto region, where the number of centenarians per unit population is relatively small.
As of January 1, 2020, there are 12 people over the age of 100 in Greece10,000. There are 90 to 99 Greeks between the ages of 1210,000.
In 2020, there are 11 centenarians in China90,000 people, including 3 males50,000 people, 830,000 people. On February 11, 2023, at the third session of the Chinese Population and Development Forum, the results of the "Tracking Survey on Influencing Factors of China's Elderly Health and Family Happiness (2021)" were released, showing that China has entered the era of longevity, and the national centenarians in 2020 were 1190,000 people, with an average life expectancy of 78 in 20212 years old, by 2050, the number of people over 80 years old will quadruple.
For seven consecutive years (2013 to 2019), Hong Kong has been the world's longest-lived region, with an average life expectancy of 82 for men and womenThe total number of elderly persons aged 9 and 88, and aged 100 or above, increased from 289 in 1981 to over 1 in 202110,000 people, a record high.
The survey shows that the three significant characteristics of the health and longevity of centenarians in China are: first, they have a peaceful mind and never worry about trivial things;Second, the diet is reasonable, and the diversity and balance of food are maintainedThe third is to participate in yi intellectual activities, read books and newspapers, and even surf the Internet.
As early as 1953, when the first census was conducted in China, there were only 3,384 centenarians in the country, and by 2014, the number of centenarians in the country reached 58,789 (data**: Chinese Society of Gerontology), and the number of centenarians in China increased 17 times. On the other hand, the number of centenarians per 100 million people has gradually increased from 576 in 1953 to 4,298.
Judging from the trend in Shanghai, the number of centenarians has increased at a rate of about 10% every year in recent years, and in 1953, there was only one centenarian in Shanghai. In 2011, the number of centenarians exceeded 1,000. In 2017, the number of centenarians reached 2,000. As of September 30, 2018, the number of elderly people aged 100 and above has reached 2,281, an increase of 246 over the same period last year.
Since ancient times, China has pursued respect for the elderly, and in the 42nd year of Kangxi (1703), the imperial court issued a document: "The hundred-year-old people will give the plaque of 'Shengping Renrui' and give it to Yinjianfang;."Those who live to 100 years old will be given a plaque of 'Zhenshou Gate', and they will still be given two pieces of silver.
Peng Zu (1237 BC or 1214 BC, 1100 BC) was a famous person in Chinese legends, and many ancient books have accounts about him, such as "Chu Ci", "The Complete Biography of Liexian", "Shen. Legend of Immortals", "Su. It is repeatedly mentioned in ancient books such as "The Book of Women" and "The Profit and Loss of the Imperial Maiden". Legend has it that Peng Zu lived from the Xia Dynasty to the end of the Shang Dynasty and lived to be 840 years old (actually 137 years old). Chinese folklore has that Li Qingyun was born in the 16th year of the Kangxi reign (1677) and died in 1933, at the age of 256. Yang Sen, a warlord in the early Republic of China, once ordered Li Qingyun to be invited to Wanxian County to participate in the inauguration ceremony of the local "Senwei Bridge".
On May 15, 1933, an article in the American "Time" called "Tortoise-pigeon-dog" reported his story and history, and Li Qingyun left the secret of his longevity to posterity: "Maintain a calm state of mind, sit like a turtle, walk like a bird, and sleep like a dog." Due to these folklore, the information is not reliable and does not provide sufficient evidence, so it is not listed in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Spain has one of the highest numbers of centenarians in the world. According to statistics, there are more than 100,000 centenarians in Spain, including more than 50 centenarians per 100,000 population, which is a staggering number compared to other countries. On February 25, 2019, the Bloomberg Z Health Country Index announced that Spain surpassed Italy to become the world's healthiest country.
According to United Nations statistics, before 2020, the average life expectancy in Spain was 82At the age of 3, it is the highest among the countries of the European Union, second only to Japan and Switzerland in the world.
According to statistics, as of 2023, there are 30,000 centenarians in France, almost 30 times more than in the 60-70s of the 20th century. According to a study released by the French National Statistics Institute (INSEE) on April 5, 2023, centenarians are mostly women. 86 percent of French centenarians are women. It is reported that the average life expectancy of a woman in France is 855 years old, compared to 79 for males3 years old.
In July 2023, the annual report released by the Italian National Institute of Statistics showed that the number of centenarians in Italy has reached 220,000 people, a record high, an increase of 2,000 in 2022 alone, and its population ageing and development rate are still higher than the EU average.
In 2020, 2 people in Germany reached 100 years of age or older040,000 people, 3,523 more than the previous year. Never before has there been so many centenarians in Germany. 4 out of 5 of these birthday stars are female.
In 2020, the number of centenarians in the UK has reached 1510,000 people, an increase of nearly one-fifth over the previous year. A key factor was the post-World War I surge in births, with thousands of people born in 1920 living to be 100 years old.
At the beginning of 2020, Russia had 2260,000 centenarians. This was calculated by RT TV based on data from Rosstat. Compared to 2019, the number of centenarians in Russia increased by about 10 (2 in 2019.)050,000).
According to official data from South Korea, by the end of 2020, there were 2 people aged 100 and over in South Korea190,000 people, a record high. Among them, there are 1650,000 people, accounting for more than 3 4.
At the end of 2020, there were 1,890 centenarians in Switzerland, and at the beginning of 2021 there were 3,070 centenarians alive.
Grandma Matiel of the Netherlands is funny and humorous, and she is still lively and naughty at the age of 100.
At the beginning of 2022, there were almost 2,600 centenarians in the Netherlands, which is more than 400 more than five years ago and an increase of almost 1 5.
As the global average life expectancy is 73 years. However, the situation varies from country to country, for example, in Japan, the average life expectancy is 85 years, but in the Central African Republic, the average life expectancy is only 54 years.
To date, Jeanne Calmet of France is a verified longest-lived person, who died in 1997 at the age of 122, and she is officially recognized as one of the people who lived past the age of 120.