The bar chart below shows current health expenditure totals as percentages of GDP* for various European countries for the years 2002, 2007 and 2012. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The chart illustrates how much money was spent on health as part of GDP in several different countries in Europe in 2002, 2007 and 2012. Units are measured in percentages

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, it can be seen that Switzerland was the country with the biggest costs, followed by Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands and Norway. Estonia was the state with the smallest expenditure and after that were Poland and Lithuania. Switzerland spent just above 10% of the Gross Domestic Product in 2002, 2007 and 2012 and there were no differences between the years. Just right behind her was Belgium with exactly 10%. After that, with slide variation between the years, but all between 8% and 10%, were Denmark, France, Netherlands and Norway. Estonia was the state that used the least amount of money for goods and services for the years 2002,2007 and 2012 (around 3%) followed by Lithuania and Poland, both somewhere between 4% and 6% (except for 2012 in Poland - about 7%).