Labor ministers from the Group of 20 (G20) major economies on Monday adopted a joint statement calling for safe and healthy working environments for elderly people as the populations of their countries' continue to gray.

At the end of the two-day gathering in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, on "Shaping a Human-Centered Future of Work," the ministers also agreed to work toward correcting the gender gap in employment.

"An aging population will bring new job opportunities associated with the 'silver economy,' but without appropriate actions also has the potential to result in shortages of labor and skills, slower economic growth, and poverty and inequality in older age," the statement said.