How the US has changed in Jimmy Carter’s lifetime

Here are some notable markers for Mr Carter, the nation and the world over his long life

An estimated crowd of 35,000 people gather for a noontime speech by presidential candidate Jimmy Carter in Philadelphia in 1976 (AP)

Already the longest-lived of the 45 men to serve as US president, Jimmy Carter has reached the century mark.

The 39th president, who remains under home hospice care, turned 100 on Tuesday October 1, celebrating in the same south Georgia town where he was born in 1924.