Venezuelan Juan Vicente Pérez Mora, certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest person in 2022, died on Tuesday at the age of 114, officials and relatives said.
“Juan Vicente Pérez Mora has gone to eternity at the age of 114,” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on the social media platform X.
According to Guinness, Pérez was officially confirmed as the oldest living person on 4 February 2022, when he was 112 years and 253 days old.
The father of 11 children, as of 2022 he had 41 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, and 12 great-great-grandchildren.