Catherina van der Linden was born in the Netherlands on August 26, 1912, making her now 110 years and 8 months.
Catherina van der Linden, who celebrated her 110th birthday last August, is now believed to be the oldest living Australian.
The oldest Australian man ever is Queensland's Dexter Kruger (1910–2021), who died at the age of 111 years, 188 days. Since the death of Gwen Moore on 31 March 2023, Catherina van der Linden, born 26 August 1912, is the oldest known living person in Australia.
The oldest known living person is Maria Branyas of Spain, aged 116 years, 107 days. The oldest known living man is Juan Vicente Pérez of Venezuela, aged 114 years, 23 days. The 100 oldest women have, on average, lived several years longer than the 100 oldest men.
Tiresias, the blind seer of Thebes, over 600 years.
Erramatti Mangamma currently holds the record for being the oldest living mother who gave birth at the age of 73 through in-vitro fertilisation via caesarean section in the city of Hyderabad, India. She delivered twin baby girls, making her also the oldest mother to give birth to twins.
Now Australia has 3700 people aged over 100. By 2050, Australia will have over 50,000 people aged 100 and over.
They were a hunter-gatherer people who had adapted well to the environment. There were between 300,000 to 950,000 Aboriginal people living in Australia when the British arrived in 1788.3 At that time there were approximately 260 distinct language groups and 500 dialects.
However, it is possible to examine the growth of semi-supercentenarians (those aged 105 and older) instead. Their numbers increased from 29 in 1981 to 184 in 2016. Male semi-supercentenarians increased from just 5 in 1981 to 21 in 2016, while female numbers increased from 24 to 163.
In Australia, a boy born in 2018–2020 can expect to live to the age of 81.2 years and a girl would be expected to live to 85.3 years compared to 51.1 for boys and 54.8 years for girls born in in 1891–1900.
Vera Ogden was born in 1917, and turns 105 on Friday. She began her working life aged 14, making boxes for chocolates and handkerchiefs, and has lived through two world wars and 25 Australian prime ministers. Sharp-minded Vera reckons her key to longevity is simply being blessed with good genes.
In an age when large families were considered normal, one family say they "always felt a little different" growing up. Now, the 13 remaining genetic members of the Thompson family — originally 16, including parents — are closing in on the world record for highest combined age, with 1,071 years between them.
Australia's population has grown older, with the median age increasing from 32.7 years at 30 June 1992 to 38.5 years at 30 June 2022. The percentage of the population aged 65 and over has increased from 11% to 17% over the same period.
Takeaways. About one in every 5,000 people in the United States is a centenarian—someone who's 100 or more years old—and about 85 percent of them are women.
Equivalent to 6.9% of those alive at 90 reaching the milestone age of 100.
The islands were settled by different seafaring Melanesian cultures such as the Torres Strait Islanders over 2500 years ago, and cultural interactions continued via this route with the Aboriginal people of northeast Australia.
It is true that there has been, historically, a small number of claims that there were people in Australia before Australian Aborigines, but these claims have all been refuted and are no longer widely debated. The overwhelming weight of evidence supports the idea that Aboriginal people were the first Australians.
There is no one Aboriginal word that all Aborigines use for Australia; however, today they call Australia, ""Australia"" because that is what it is called today. There are more than 250 aboriginal tribes in Australia. Most of them didn't have a word for ""Australia""; they just named places around them.
For the purpose of population projections the long-term mortality assumption is that life expectancy at birth will increase from the 1999-2001 level of 77.0 years for males and 82.4 years for females to 84.1 years for males and 87.6 years for females in 2050-2052.
Midlife refers to the middle years of life or middle age, which ranges from approximately age 40 to age 65.
This report focuses on older Australians—generally those aged 65 and over, unless otherwise specified.
According to Guinness World Records, the oldest father who had the documentation to prove it was Australian Les Colley, who in 1991 fathered a son with his third wife when he was 92.
There's no maximum age that stops a man from being able to have a baby. You can become a father long into your older years, but there are risks.
Charles, Duke of Orléans, was 14-years-old when he had his first child. As jarring as it seems to have a child before you've just barely hit puberty, it was customary in the 1400s to wed and conceive very young. The wife and mother of his child, Isabella of Valois, was 19-years-old and died in childbirth.
Indigenous people have lived in Australia more than 65,000 years ago, according to scientific evidence of human occupation1. To put this in perspective, this is ten times older than the ancient Egyptian pyramids.