Southern European country has more than double the number of people aged over 100 than it did in 2009
The number of people in Italy living to 100 continues to grow sharply, with more than 2,000 reaching the milestone age in 2025, the vast majority of them women.
There are now 23,548 residents in Italy who are 100-years-old or over, compared with 21,211 in 2024, according to the latest figures from Istat, the national statistics agency. Italy has more than double the number of centenarians than it did in 2009, Istat said.
Of those reaching the milestone age this year, 82.6% are women. Women also take the lead among Italy’s 724 semi-supercentenarians – people aged 105 and over – and among the 19 supercentenarians, those in the 110-plus age bracket.
Lucia Laura Sangenito, who lives in the southern Campania region, will celebrate her 115th birthday on 22 November, making her Italy’s oldest woman and the third oldest in Europe, after Ethel Caterham, 116, in the UK and Marie-Rose Tessier, a French woman who turned 115 in May.
