Anatomy: Work till you drop?

World Policy Journal examines the aging workforce in six countries.

The percentage of seniors who are either employed or seeking work isn’t driven by the size of a country’s graying population. Spain and France, for instance, have maintained low labor force participation rates among those 65 and older.

Compiled by Ritikaa Iyer and Maya Singhal

Sources: The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2013

Designed by Meehyun Nam Thompson

Israel provides nearly a quarter of its aging population with in-home health assistance and other services, a significantly higher share than other developed countries, thanks to a national long-term care program it adopted in 1988.

In France and Spain, seniors have a lower poverty rate than the general population. This likely contributes to the low labor participation rates among people 65 and older in these countries.