As of 15th January 2025, who is the world's verified oldest living person?

Inah Canabarro Lucas (Born 8 June 1908) is a Brazilian nun and supercentenarian (term used to describe a person who is 110 years or older) who has been verified as the world's oldest living person since the death of Tomiko Itooka (23 May 1908 - 29 December 2024, who lived to the age of 116 years and 220 days). Inah is also the world's oldest living nun since the death of Lucile Random (11 February 1904 - 17 January 2023) who lived to the age of 118 years and 340 days.The oldest living verified man is 112-year-old Joào Marinho Neto of Brazil (Born 5 October 1912).

She worked as a kindergarten teacher at Santa Tereza de Jesus High School, having taught Joào Figueiredo, the 30th president of Brazil. Additionally, she is the great-granddaughter of General David Canabarro, who faught in the Ragamuffin war (the South Brazilian revolutionary war). Pope Francis of Catholici Church sent a message to her on her 110th birthday. She is the second-oldest nun in history, and the oldest verified living person in the world.

Sister Inah (116 years and 221 days as of 15 January 2025) currently lives in Porto Alegre in Rio Grande do Sul state in the Santo Enrique de Ossô Shelter, which is next to the Teresian Sisters of Brazil, a community where in 1927 she was accepted at the age of 19.