In a ministerial written answer yesterday, to a question about the international variations in the proportion of economic inactivity in the labour force due to claims for illness and disability, Margaret Hodge, the Minister for Work said that -

'The UK has one of the lowest economic inactivity rates in the OECD. Among the G7 countries, the UK has the second lowest economic inactivity rate after Canada.'

The minister's full written answer is available here.