Nearly a week after the death of the world's oldest person, a nonprofit organization that documents the oldest people, LongeviQuest, has awarded the title to the man who automatically moves to the top of the list of the longest-lived.
She is 116-year-old Inah Canabarro Lucas.
She is also the 20th oldest person in history.
Lucas is a nun, she is from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Her confirmation comes after the death of 116-year-old Tomiko Itooka from Japan on December 29.