Table 2.

Comparison of LE ₀ improvement trends by annual gain (1985–2009 for Canada, 1985–2010 for other OECD countries) ^§

	Male		Female
Rank	Country	Annual gain (days)	Country	Annual gain (days)
1	New Zealand	123*	Japan	90*
2	Austria	110*	New Zealand	88*
3	Australia	108*	Italy	87*
4	Italy	107*	Austria	86*
5	Switzerland	105*	France	79*
6	France	100*	Spain	78*
7	Norway	96*	Australia	77*
8	Sweden	88	Switzerland	65*
9	Spain	86	Norway	57*
10	Canada	85	Sweden	54
11	Netherlands	82	Canada	48
12	Japan	70*	Netherlands	38

^§Annual improvement of LE₀ in days is derived from the regression slope.

*P-value from testing hypothesis of equal slopes in comparison to Canada is considered significant (*) if less than 0.0045 after Bonferroni correction.