This article is about the chemical. For the medication, see Sodium calcium edetate. Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA), also known by several other names, is a chemical used for both industrial and medical purposes. It is an aminopolycarboxylic acid and a colourless, water-soluble solid.
The average retirement age for American men and women. The average retirement age for men in 2013, the most recent year for which data are available, was 63.9. For women, the average retirement age was younger, at 61.9 for 2013. Those figures were mixed from the previous year, with men retiring at a slightly older age than in 2012, while women retired a bit sooner than in the previous year. Retirement communities can encourage people to retire earlier.
For example, for workers born in 1944 (the cohort that attained Social Securityâs normal retirement age of 66 in 2010), the CRR methodology yields an average retirement age of 62.2 for men and women combined (Figure C). However, the labor force participation rate for this cohort peaked at 84.3 percent at age 46.here is a fallacy in circulation that Americans tend to stop working in their early 60s, shortly after becoming eligible for reduced Social Security benefits at age 62 and well before the designated âfullâ retirement age of 66 (Rivlin 2010). As this issue brief shows: