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.

The given table illustrates the differences between the main ages at which men and women retired in 6 different parts of the world in 2003.

Overall

, males retired approximately 1 year earlier than their counterparts in all examined countries.

Besides

, the Japanese and Korean had the highest retirement age of both sexes. Starting with men, Korean and Japanese ones retired when they were around 67, being the oldest people who started retirement in the world.

In contrast

, the bottoms of the list were occupied by France and Italy whose data for

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category are only under 59. In comparison, Australian and American men stopped working at 64 and 65 years old. Regarding women, Korean and Japanese ones retired when they were around 67, being the oldest people who started retirement in the world. Meanwhile, citizens having

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gender didn’t have to work when they were 10 years younger than the aforementioned. When it turned to Australia and the US, these governments allowed their female citizens to retire when they reached 63 and 64 years old.