Band 7+: 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.

Given is a table illustrating the differences in average retirement’s ages of women and men in six countries in 2003.

Overall, women from all reported countries retired at younger ages than men. Notably, both genders in Korea have the highest retirement’s ages among six countries.

As can be seen from the diagram, female Koreans attained the first place in 2003 with the average age of retirement at 67 years and 2 months, followed by Japan and Italy women both retired at 66 years and 9 months on average. The United States had their female employees retired at the age of averaging 64 years and 5 months, while in Australia and France, women retired earlier compared to other countries, at 63 years and 5 months and 56 years and 9 months respectively.

Moving to the remaining factors, Korean men had their retirement at the average age of 68 years and 9 months which made them the oldest in the chart. In the same year, Japan and Italy encountered a similar retirement’s age at 67 years and 4 months, with the United States men retired slightly sooner by 1 year and 6 months. By contrast, male Australians and Frenchs in turn entered retirement at 64 years and 1 months and 57 years and 4 months.