A study by Dr Saul Justin Newman (Centre for Longitudinal Studies) has won the first-ever Ig Nobel award in Demography at this year’s 34th Ig Nobel Prizes. His work reveals fundamental flaws in the data about the world’s oldest people and patterns of extreme longevity.
I do some quick math using my birth year, and when people ask how old I am I reference eastern european countries that no longer exist.
My go-to will be Yugoslavia from now on, haha
Back in my day we had two Germanies and one Soviet Union, and that's the way we liked it!