The graphs below show the percentage of men and women aged 60-64 who were employed in four countries in 1970 and 2000. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar charts illustrate the percentage of employment of people aged 60 to 64 in four specific countries, broken up by gender, from 1970 to 2000.

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the total proportion of working males at

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age was significantly higher than

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of females.

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, the level of employment decreased over the

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in the majority of the countries. Focusing first on males, in 1970, nearly 80 to 85 per cent of men in Belgium and Japan were employed,

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over 30 years, the corresponding figure in Belgium dropped drastically, by 60 %,

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for Japan

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proportion decreased only by nearly 10%. Regarding the USA and

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, approximately 75% of males could be seen in each of these countries at work at the beginning of the

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, as opposed to roughly 55 and 45 per cent of them after 30 years, respectively. As for the other gender, the percentages of working women aged 60 to 64 in Belgium and Australia were critically low, at the level of fewer than 10% and 20% during the whole

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. When it comes to the USA and Japan, considerably more females had jobs in these areas, roughly 40 to 45 per cent. Notably, these figures remained relatively unchanged throughout the 30-year

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