(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 6 - As of January 1, 2025, there were 23,548 residents in Italy who were at least 100 years old, over 2,000 more than the previous year when there were 21,211, and 82.6% were women, ...

ROME, Nov 7 (Reuters) - The number of people aged over 100 in Italy has increased by 30% over the past 10 years, while birth rates have continued to decline. There were more than 22,000 Italians in ...

July 3 (UPI) --An Italian retirement home chain's annual gathering of centenarians broke a Guinness World Record when 70 people who were at least 100 years old attended this year's event. The ...

The number of centenarians around the world rose from 151,000 in 2000 to 573,000 in 2021. People are living longer, and we can expect to see more people reach 100 in the years to come. But what sort ...

Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the fastest-growing demographic group of the world’s population, with numbers roughly doubling every ten years since the ...

When Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122, her longevity had researchers scratching their heads. Although physically active for most of her life, she was also a regular smoker and enjoyed ...

Karin Modig receives funding from Karolinska Institutet and Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare. Humans may be living longer on average these days, but, even so, only a ...

BOSTON (AP) — Centenarians have always been a rare breed. Now they're an endangered species. The 100-plus crowd — those most venerable of human beings — is succumbing rapidly and heartbreakingly to ...