The bar chart shows poverty rates by sex and age. They are from the United States in 2008.

The graph describes an annual economic struggle in America in 2008. The data is measured by percentage and categorized by sex and

age

.

This

writing will highlight the main unique points from the picture.

Overall

, women had higher poverty rates than men.

Moreover

, the number of problems amongst the girls was decreasing in accordance with the older their

age

become.

However

, the same trend was experienced in the opposite sex trend with just lower figures. First of all, poverty rates that women suffer from at the

age

of 65 until 74, which has half of the children's rate, have the same amount of economic struggle as the ages 45 to 59. Based on the chart, the figures experienced a gradual fall the more they get older.

However

, there was a rise in the

age

60-64 calculated but

then

decreased eventually.

Secondly

, the economic problems in the boy's view compared to the girls had a slightly smaller gap with less than 1% measured at the

age

0 until 17 but

then

started to have a large gap compared to the

age

18 and older.

Furthermore

, the individuals on their 75

age

had a ratio of 1:3 respectively compared to the children under the

age

of 5.