The given barchart provides the statistics regarding the portion of the United States of America population which earnings were below minimal for the 2008 divided by age and gender.
The most recognizable trend is the overall decrease in poor people of both sexes till the end of sixties. Another aspect worth attention is that the percentage of females in given figure is higher in each age bucket presented on the graph.
The poverty rate in 2008 stood at over 20 percent among men under 5 years old. Then, throughout the growing up, the number of poor in this category had a graduate drop, reaching the local minimum in a group of 55-59 aged with approximately 7 percent. After that, the data showed a slight rise followed by a slight fall to the graph bottom of about 6 percent for males that are older than 75.
Meanwhile, the number of women was only slightly higher than men for groups that are younger 17. However, the portion of ladies in poverty experience a huge increase in 18-24 group reaching the top of around 21 percent and overcoming the corresponding mens group by 5 percent. Then the data showed the dramatic fall to the bottom with 7 percent for 45-54 years old females, after which the number grew slightly to almost 13 percent for the oldest category.