Band 6+: You should spend about 20 minutes on this task. The graph below shows the average retirement age of males and females in six countries in 2003. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The provided graph gives an overview of the average age of retirement of males and females in the year 2003 among six different countries. The countries included in this graph refers to Australia, United States, Japan, Italy, France and Korea.

According to the graph, the male population have higher retirement age amongst all six countries as compared to the female population. Japan and Italy have the highest ages of retirement for males which is 67 years and 4 months. Whereas for females the highest age of retirement was found to be in Korea being at 67 years and 2 months. The lowest age of retirement for both males and females are in France being at 57 years 4 months and 56 years and 9 months simultaneously.

The United states average age of retirement for men stayed at 65 years and 6 months while for females it stayed at 63 years and 5 months. Japan and Italy have the same average age of retirement being 67 years 4 month and 66 years 9 months for male and female accordingly. Korea has an average age of 68 years 8 months for males while Australia has 64 years and 1 month for males and 63 years and 5 months for females.