The bar charts show employment rates of Belgian, American, Japanese, and Indonesian males and females aged between 60 and 64 in 1970 and 2010. Overall, while men remained a major workforce throughout the period and among four countries, the reverse was true for women. Meanwhile, the shares of males and females experienced different declines in four countries.
Focusing on the employment rates in the USA, where had the highest male proportion over time at just over 85% initially, while the share for their female counterparts was only about 77% in 1970, and both then slightly declined to under 80% and 45% in 2020, respectively. Followed closely by the figure for Indonesian male and female workers, which started at approximately 84% and 65%, the rates decreased relatively to 70% and 50%.
Regarding the other two countries, Belgian people were more employed than Japanese people in the first year, with males (80% and 75%) and females (63% and 52%), respectively. However, these figures exhibited various drops. As for Japan, its proportion was more than Belgium’s at the end, with males (52% and 62%) and females (9% and 47%), respectively.