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The graphs below show the average retirement age for men and women in 2004 and 2008 in six different countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant

The graphs below show the average retirement age for men and women in 2004 and 2008 in six different countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant
The given column graphs depict the average
retirement
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age
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 for individuals in 2004 and 2008 among six nations. It can be seen easily that
Sweden
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 had the longest
retirement
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age
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 between
men
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 and
women
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. It is clearly illustrated that
this
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 average
age
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 was over 63 in
Sweden
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, and in comparison to 2008, it had a small rise to 64,
similarly
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 the pattern is the same for
women
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 as well.
Similarly
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, the Netherlands has the same pattern
with
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as
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Sweden
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, the
most
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apply
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second
average
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highest average
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 of
retirement
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 is owned by the Netherlands, it is 63 for both
men
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 and
women
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 and 64 in 2008 for all. In
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men's
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the men's
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 graph, the average
age
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 for
men
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 had no changes and was 60,
while
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this
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 number was 58 and 59 for
women
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 in
following
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the following
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 years respectively. France, in
this
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 chart, had the lowest
retirement
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age
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, it is vividly clear that in 2004
men
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 and
women
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 retired
in
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at
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 58,
while
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 the
age
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 changed to 59 in 2008 for
men
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.
Overall
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, the
age
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 of retiring varies considerably among the six European countries in 2004 and 2008, but the discrepancy between
Sweden
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 and France is high.

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Linking words: Don't use the same linking words: "similarly, while".
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Basic structure: Use less body paragraphs.
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Basic structure: Change the third paragraph.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words retirement, age, sweden, men, women with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "graphs" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "changes" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the third paragraph.
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