Band 5+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graph below shows the average retirement age of males and females in six countries in 2003. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The graph illustrates the data about the retirement rate in two divided groups of males and women in six different countries in 2003.

Overall, it is clear that the highest average ages among countries in men and women groups was Korea, with the age of 68 and 8 months, and 67 and 2 months respectively. Generally, the rate of ages in other countries were not too far from each other in both groups.

The first three countries in the table ( Australia, the United State, and Japan ) demonstrated the second highest average age in both females and males section, which all were under 70 years old. Furthermore, the age of retirement of men in the France were 57 and 4 months in 2005, while the age of the women of the country were 56 and 9 months in the same year. Similarly, the age of men who retired in the Italy was 57 and 4 months, while the women were also the same with a couple of months difference.