List of Nobel laureates in Economics by age

This is a list of Nobel laureates in Economics by age.

To allow for the differing amount of leap years within the life of each laureate, two measures of longevity are given. The first is the number of days lived by the laureate. Following that comes the number of whole years the laureate lived, and days past their last birthday. Where the person in question is still living, the longevity is calculated up to .

Overview

The median age for a person winning the Economics prize is 66 years and 6 months, which is how old John F. Nash was when he won the 1994 prize. The youngest person to win the Economics prize was Kenneth Arrow, who won the 1972 prize at the age of 51 years, 109 days. The oldest person to win the Economics prize was Leonid Hurwicz, who won the 2007 prize at the age of 90 years, 111 days.

The Economics laureate who lived the longest after receiving the prize was Paul Samuelson. Samuelson died 39 years, 3 days after he received his prize, at the age of 94 years, 212 days. The next in line to tie this is Kenneth Arrow, who received the prize in 1972. Should Arrow live to 14 December 2011, he would tie Samuelson's record. Arrow's age on that date would be .

The oldest living Economics laureate is Ronald Coase (born 29 December 1910), at the age of . The youngest living Economics laureate is Paul Krugman (born 28 February 1953), at the age of .

The longest lived Economics laureate is Ronald Coase (born 29 December 1910), who is still living As of 2009 at the age of . He passed previous oldest laureate Theodore Schultz on 28 October 2006. Of the Economics laureates that have died, the shortest lived one was Leonid Kantorovich, who died at the age of 74 years, 78 days. However, there are a number of Economics laureates currently living that are younger than that; they would obtain the record if they were to die younger than Kantorovich.

List of Nobel laureates in Economics by age

Trivia

• One person has won the Economics prize posthumously. William Vickrey died 11 October 1996, 3 days after it was announced he had won the prize.

• Births by century
  • 19th century: 1st, Ragnar Frisch; last, Friedrich von Hayek (4 total)
  • 20th century: 1st, Simon Kuznets; most recent, Paul Krugman (60 total)

• Deaths by century
  • 20th century: 1st, Ragnar Frisch; last, John Harsanyi (19 total)
  • 21st century: 1st, Herbert Simon; most recent, Paul Samuelson (8 total)