Rezső Gallai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Hungarian supercentenarian
Date of Birth: 
Place of Birth: Szombathely, Vas County, Hungary
About Rezső Gallai
- This is a list of the oldest people by country and in selected territories.
- It includes the individual(s) for each given country or territory who are reported to have had the longest lifespan.
- Such records can only be determined to the extent that the given country's records are reliable.
- Comprehensive birth registration is largely a 20th-century phenomenon, so records establishing human longevity are necessarily fragmentary.
- The earliest comprehensive recordkeeping systems arose in Western Europe.
- For example, the United Kingdom organized a central recordkeeping system for England and Wales in 1837, making it compulsory by 1874.The list of oldest people is heavily skewed toward Western countries.
- This is not necessarily simply due to better chances of survival.
- Additionally the proportion of world population of current developed nations was far higher over a century ago than today; the table of nations below represents less than 20% of the current global population, and the European descended population alone constituted some 36% of the world population in 1900.
- Similarly, Japan continues to drop in world population rankings.
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