The graphs below show the percentage of men and women aged 60-64 who were employed in four countries in 1970 and 2000.

Contained in the bar chart is information pertaining to the employment ratios of people aged between 60 and 64 in four different countries in 1970 and 2000. The data is measured in percentage (%).

Overall

, there were more male employees than their fellows in every nation. It can

also

be seen that Japan was continuously the country with the highest employment percentages for both sexes. Looking at the data more closely, it can be observed that there was a similar trend regarding Japan and Belgium, where their female workers' proportion increased from 40% to 43% and 7% to 8% respectively.

By contrast

, the USA and Australia saw a decline at 36% and 16% in 1970 compared to 38% and 18% in 2000. Turning to the remaining statistics, the figures were noticeably bigger. In reference to Belgium, their male employee rates stood at 79% in 2000, over four times higher than those in 1970.

This

was followed by Australia where the figures for those workforces witnessed a climb to 76% in 2000 from 47% in 1970. Moving on to the job proportion in the USA and Japan, it is evident that the disparities were much smaller, the employed rates for their men were at roughly three quarters and 47%,

then

rose up to 86% and 76% by the end of the time scale.