ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - At the age of 137, Rawshe Qasim, a Yazidi woman from Shekhan, has been revealed to be the world’s oldest living human following the recent Iraqi population census.

Iraq conducted a nationwide population census on Wednesday and Thursday for the first time since 1987. A count in 1997 did not include the provinces of the Kurdistan Region.

The census revealed there were at least five living centenarians in Iraq, all of whom are women.

Born in 1887 in Shekhan's Baadre, considered the political capital of the Yazidis, Qasim has lived through three different centuries. She is still relatively healthy as she is able to walk on her own two feet, albeit with the aid of a cane.

The supercentenarian still maintains a great portion of her memory and recalls the era of Ottoman rule of the Yazidi heartland of Sinjar.

She has been married twice and has over 250 offsprings. Her youngest son, Tahsin, has called for his mother to be included in the Guinness Book of Records.

The Guinness World Records currently recognizes Jeanne Louise Calment, a French woman who passed away at the age of 122 in 1997, as the oldest human who has ever lived. Her age is considered “the greatest fully authenticated age to which any human has ever lived.”

Qasim dreams of returning to Sinjar and witnessing peace and stability in the Yazidi homeland again before her death.