Stunning chart reveals the oldest people to ever live - and who held the title longest Reddit user SportsAnalyticsGuy made a data visualization of the oldest people who have ever lived His chart reveals only six men have held the title, and most of the oldest people have been white Each person also gets a color-coded bar for how long they reigned a oldest on Earth The oldest person to ever live and who held the title longest was Jeanne Calment who died in 1997 at 122 But there has recently been controversy over her title The longest person alive now is 116-year-old Kane Tanaka
By Natalie Rahhal Deputy Health Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:36 GMT, 9 January 2019 | Updated: 23:36 GMT, 9 January 2019
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The original human goal - and that of much of modern medicine - is to live the longest, healthiest, best life possible.
And Reddit user SportsAnalyticsGuy has created a beautiful chart of the people who rank highest in that goal: the 65 centenarians and supercentenarians who have held the title 'oldest person on earth' at some point in history.
His visualization shows the elite group in order of who was born first to the most recent super-ager, Kane Tanaka who, at 116, is the oldest living person in the world.
It also includes
