Two joinable datasets on the far end of the human lifespan, the bookend to Prodigies: 254 verified supercentenarians (the 100 oldest people ever, the 100 oldest men ever, and the oldest living lists, deduped) and 145 title reigns covering every holder of world's oldest living person and world's oldest living man since the records begin in 1951. Ages ship three ways per house style: the verified "122 years, 164 days" reading split into Age_Years and Age_Days_Over, plus Age_Total_Days computed exactly from the ISO dates, 44,724 for Jeanne Calment, whose 1997 record still stands while every runner-up since has died at least three years short of it. The all-time top 100 runs at least 90 percent female, a ratio the test suite enforces. The succession file carries tenure dates with zero gaps back to 1951 (test-verified), days held, ages while holding the title, and a Current_Holder flag: the median reign is just 252 days, the title changes hands faster than a boxing belt. The files join on Person, partially by design: early titleholders died younger than today's all-time cutoff, which is itself the finding, the frontier of verified old age has advanced about a decade in seventy years. Built with a 15-test acceptance suite anchored on Calment, Jiroemon Kimura and the continuity of both successions.
399 rows across 2 joinable files, with 23 columns in total: Person, Gender, Birth_Date, Death_Date, Still_Living, Age_Years, Age_Days_Over, Age_Total_Days, Country, Person_URL, Title, Person, Gender, From_Date, To_Date, Current_Holder, Days_Held, Age_At_Start, Age_At_End, Birth_Date, Death_Date, Country, Person_URL.
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Join the files on Person (titleholders.Person = people.Person); the join is partial by design, early titleholders died younger than the all-time lists' cutoff.
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