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Jimmy Carter has become the oldest living former US president at the age of 94.聽

The 39th president is 172 days past his 94th birthday, making him one day older than former President George HW Bush, who died in November.

The achievement comes more than three years after Mr Carter announced he had a form of skin cancer which had spread to his liver and brain.

He received immunotherapy treatment and has since been in remission.

A spokeswoman for The Carter Centre, which the former president and his wife Rosalynn founded to tackle global human rights issues, said there were "no special celebrations planned".

"We at The Carter Centre sure are rooting for him and grateful for his long life of service that has benefited millions of the world's poorest people," said Deanna Congileo.

Mr Carter, who began his working life on his family's peanut farm, served as US president between 1977 and 1981.

The former Democrat only lasted one term in office, after his re-election bid was hurt by a hostage crisis and a struggling economy.

However he has described his work with The Carter Centre as his defining professional achievement.

In 2002, he won the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."

In a memoir published on his 90th birthday, Mr Carter said: "I spent four of my ninety years in the White House, and they were, of course, the pinnacle of my political life.

"Those years, though, do not dominate my chain of memories, and there was never an orderly or planned path to get there during my early life.

"Teaching, writing and helping The Carter Center evolve... seem to constitute the high points in my life."

And he still claims the best or most significant decision he has ever made was "asking Rosalynn to marry me."