"Figure 6: The countries of the UK have seen low life expectancy improvements during 2011 to 2018 compared with selected OECD countries","" "Average annual increase in period life expectancy at birth in weeks, selected Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries, 2011 to 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. Countries with a similar level of economic development to the UK were selected for which period life expectancy at birth data for 2018 were available in the Human Mortality Database at the time of publishing this bulletin. 2. Countries have been ordered as an average of male and female values. " "Unit","Weeks" "","" "Country","Male","Female" "South Korea","19.16","13.75" "Denmark","12.38","10.62" "Norway","14.01","8.6" "Finland","14.27","6.97" "Czech Republic","10.75","8.21" "Belgium","11.99","6.84" "Japan","11.41","7.1" "Australia","10.04","7.56" "Portugal","9.78","7.76" "Switzerland","10.56","6.58" "Poland","10.43","6.71" "Northern Ireland","10.95","4.76" "France","10.04","5.15" "Spain","9.32","5.28" "Sweden","8.28","5.15" "Netherlands","8.93","3.98" "Iceland","8.86","2.67" "England","5.67","3.98" "Scotland","5.67","3.26" "Wales","2.22","2.22" "USA","0.91","2.41"