The bar graphes provide changes in older people who worked in four different countries over a thirty-year period.
Overall, it is evident that in all the given countries the number of the elderly working experienced a significant decrease, especially for women in Belgium, during three decades. In two different years, the number of elderly working men is higher than that of elderly women.
What stands out the graph is that in 1970, above fifty percent of older people had a job. Among the four countries, the proportion of elderly working males was close, ranging between 75 percent and 85 percent. In terms of women, the USA had the highest number of older working females (around 80%), followed by Belgium and Indonesia where rates were just above 60 percent.
Regarding changes in 2000, the number of workers went down dramically with men making up for 50 percent and women accounting for 10 percent in Belgium. There was a slight decrease in the share of senior male employees in the USA , while that of females halved. On the other hand, the difference in the number by genders in Japan declined, from 20 percent to 5 percent, while in Indonesia the difference stable around at 20 percent.