The charts illustrate the proportions for 60-64-year-old males and females who were employed in various countries in 1970 and 2000.
Looking from an overall perspective, it is readily apparent that the figures for both working males and females belonging to the 60-64 age bracket declined from 1970 to 2000 in all countries, with the exception of women working in the USA and Australia. Significantly more men were employed than women from the age of 60 to 64 in all nations in both years in question.
In 1970, Japan accounted for the highest working male population aged 60 to 64 at 85%, followed by Belgium at 79%, then Australia at 76%, and finally the US at 73%. Over the following thirty years, Belgium’s data witnessed the most dramatic drop to reach 19%, while Japan’s only dipped marginally to 74%. A decline in Australia’s men in employment was more notable than the US’s, with the former falling to 47% and the latter to 55%
Concerning the female working demographics aged from 60 to 64 in 1970, the greatest figure was recorded in Japan at 43%, with the US’s proportion trailing behind at 36%. Australia and Belgium’s statistics were considerably lower, constituting 8% and 16%, respectively. In 2000, the figure for employed women in this age range in the US and Australia grew to 39% and 18%, for each, whereas Belgium and Japan’s proportions dropped to 7% and 40%, in turn.