Brazil recently (2011) discovered a woman Maria Lucimar Pereira aged 120-years old during routine check of state birth records by INNS – Brazil’s National Institute of Social Security

The birth certificate says she was born on September 3, 1890. If her birth certificate is true, this indigenous women in the remote north-west Brazilian Amazon state of Acre would will be the world’s oldest living person.

At present American Besse Cooper, who was born on August 26, 1896 – making her nearly 115-years old – is regarded as the oldest in the world.