Supercentenarian

A supercentenarian (sometimes hyphenated super-centenarian) is someone who has reached the age of 110 years or more, something achieved by only one in a thousand centenarians (0.1%, based on European data). In turn, only about one supercentenarian in fifteen lives to turn 114.

Related Topics:
Age - Year - Centenarian

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The term has been around at least since the 1970s (as one citation, Norris McWhirter, editor of Guinness, used the word in correspondence with age claims researcher A. Ross Eckler, Jr. in 1976), and was further popularized in 1991 by William Strauss and Neil Howe, in their book entitled Generations. Early references tend to mean simply "someone well over 100" but the 110-and-over cutoff is the accepted criterion of demographers.

Related Topics:
1970s - Norris McWhirter - A. Ross Eckler, Jr. - 1976 - 1991 - William Strauss - Neil Howe - Generations - Demographers

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