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 depicts information about health total costs among twelve European countries throughout a five-year range period beginning in 2002 until 2012, measured in percentage. At first glance, the bar chart shows changes over time. Switzerland hit the highest percentage in mentioned years, only France achieved the same in 2007,

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Estonia had the lowest proportion. As can be seen, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, and Estonia, respectively, the highest to the lowest, remained at the same rate over three years.

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, Denmark, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, and Slovenia showed an upward trend of about 1% in the

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, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg illustrated different trends. At the onset, France had 10%,

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reached 11% in 2007, and decreased to 9% in 2012,

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the Netherlands started at the same but declined nearly 1% in the period range.

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, the percentage in Luxembourg remained the same in 2005 and 2007,

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1% in 2012.