The graph illustrates the proportion of aged residents that still have a job to make ends meet in 4 separate countries in 1970 and 2000.
Overall, senior male citizens have a propensity for keeping doing a job more than that of females. Strikingly, the biggest gap was seen in Belgium in 2000 while the rate of women had to experience a seven fold increase to keep up with men.
In the year 1970, regarding the weaker sex, USA headed the list with 78%, the others ranked in descending order were as follows: Indonesia(65%), Belgium(63%) and lastly Japan, accounting for 56%. Meanwhile, regarding that of the stronger one, USA and Indonesia share the top position with 86% and 84% respectively, closely followed by Belgium and Japan, making up for more or less than 77%.
Regarding the changes happening in the next 30 years, reference to females, Indonesia surpassed the others to become the country with the most aged laborers with 50%, when the USA lost their dominant Indonesian and significantly dropped to 47% in 2000, 2% higher than that of Japan. Lastly, Belgium witnessed an unprecedented dip to 8%, 8 times needed to return to the statistic of 1970.