The illustration compares the findings of a survey of 1000 adults in five distinct countries, namely USA, UK, Mexico, Japan and Egypt, regarding the age at which they contended certain responsibilities and rights should be permitted for minors. At a glance, out of five countries, Japan is at the top in all three sectors: marriage, voting and criminal responsibility. Meantime, all the other countries demonstrate a fluctuated pattern regarding three concerns.
In USA, both the age for marriage and voting were at the same level, which was around 17, while criminal responsibility was at a significantly lower level. Conversely, in the UK, marriage, voting and criminal responsibility age limits were into an order, slightly above to 15, 15 and slightly below to 15, respectively. Nevertheless, Mexio also exhibits a similar pattern to USA, although with lower age numbers for both marriage and voting, except criminal responsibility which depicts a moderate increased than to USA.
Most significantly, in Japan it also demonstrates an identical trend to the UK, although with substantially higher values for each category. In there, age for marriage was at around 22 years and voting age was at 20 years while criminal responsibility was at slightly lower to that. Nonetheless, Egypt delineates an entirely distinct pattern to other four regions. In Egypt, the age for voting was at the higher number, approximately 18 years, while marriage was at secondly, just above 15, following criminal responsibility at last, around 15 years.
