"Figure 6: A variety of life expectancy improvements were experienced among the UK’s constituent countries","" "Change in life expectancy at birth in weeks, UK and UK countries, between 2015 to 2017 and 2016 to 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. When considering the influence of each constituent country on the UK trend, trends in England are most dominant as England makes up the largest proportion of the UK population." "Unit","Weeks" "","" "Country","Male","Female" "UK","3.65","4.17" "England","3.65","4.17" "Wales","-0.52","2.61" "Scotland","1.56","-0.52" "Northern Ireland","11.99","3.65"