The bar charts illustrate the number of employment for both men and women aged between 60 to 64 in four countries between 1970 and 2000. Overall, the proportion of men workers in both years in all four countries are greater than women. Moreover, there was a significant decline in the percentage of men employed in Belgium. In contrast, the proportion of women employment witnessed negligible changes over the period given.
In 1970, senior Japanese men employment stands the greatest proportion among all the other countries, accounting for 85% and dropped to 74% in 2000. Taking a closer look to the bar chart, the number of men employment from 1970 to 2000 did not experience an increase. In fact, the proportion of men employed in Belgium dramatically fell from under four-fifth to just under a fifth. Similar changes but with lesser figure, can be seen in the USA and Australia, both countries had around three-quarters of employment in 1970 and dropped to 55% and 45%, respectively.
Senior women workers in Japan were also the highest proportion in both years, but there was a 3% fall in 1970 and it ended at 40% in 2000. Similarly, in Belgium the proportion of women employment fall by 1% in 1970 and reached to 7% in 2000. In contrast, the proportion for both countries the USA and Australia grew slightly over the period given. In the USA, the proportion increased 3% and reached to 39%, while Australian women employment rose from 16% in 1970 to 18% in 2000.