Tips from Spain’s centenarians on how to live to 100


  • World
  • Tuesday, 03 Jan 2017

Rafaela Pons, 102, poses for a portrait with a picture of herself when she was young, in the living room of her home in Ferreries, on the Balearic island of Menorca, Spain, August 10, 2016. REUTERS/Andrea Comas

(This story published on Dec. 30 corrects number of centenarians to 17,000 in first paragraph)

CANGAS DE ONIS, Spain (Reuters) - With more than 17,000 people aged 100 or over, Spain is the country with the greatest life expectancy after Japan, OECD data and the latest population census shows.

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