The charts below show the percentage of Australian men and women in three age groups who were employed in 1984, 2001 and 2014.

The bar charts illustrate statistics concerning how many male and female individuals in

percentage

were employed in Australia in three distinct

age

categories.

Overall

, employers presented a high tendency to recruit people between the ages of 35 and 44 in all years.   Regarding the

age

group between 35 and 44, it was the most commonplace

age

of recruitment in Australia, remaining stable at around 98 per

cent

,  the highest

percentage

in all three years. In 1984, the

percentage

of

men

between the ages of 15 and 19 represented the second-highest number, accounting for over 50 per

cent

of employed

men

.

However

, there was a low tendency to employ the oldest

age

group, between 60-64, in 1984, with the level starting at under half of employed

men

.   Both the youngest and oldest

age

groups had witnessed  stability by 2001, as the

percentage

of both groups continued at a similar level in 1984. In 2014,

while

the

percentage

of

men

between 15 and 19 decreased slightly to 50 per

cent

, the

percentage

of the oldest employed

men

increased drastically by nine per

cent

to 55 per

cent

.

In other words

, over time, it seemed that older

men

were likely to be hired.