The chart below illustrates the information about the average age of retirement of males and females in six different countries for the year of 2003.
Overall, as it presented, men are tend to retire later rather than women. The average retirement age for both genders ranged from the late 50s to early 60s.
Korea is considered as a recordsman among all six states in the chart by having the oldest retirement age for males and females, which is 68 years 8 months and 67 years 2 months respectively. In contrast, France has the lowest retirement age for men and women, with men retiring in 57 years 4 months and women retiring at 56 years 9 months.
States such as Japan and Italy have similar average age of retiring. Male employees in those countries are retiring at the age of 67 years 4 months and female ones at 66 years and 9 months. In comparison, japanese and italian employers sending their workers on pension way later than their counterparts in Australia (64 years 1 month for men and 63 years and 5 months for women) and USA (65 years 6 months for men and 64 years 2 months for women).
The lowest difference between retirement ages of men and women is considered in Italy and Japan, where males retire only 7 months later than female ones. The biggest gap is in Australia; aussie men are tend to retire 8 months later than women.