“In general, the claims about how long people are living mostly don’t stack up.”
More than 500 Americans are listed as over 110. Seven have a birth certificate. A 2010 Japanese government review found 82% of the country’s listed centenarians were dead, and a Greek minister found more than 9,000 dead centenarians still collecting pensions. The world’s longevity hotspots look a lot like its pension fraud hotspots.