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 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 bar chart gives information about health spending as Gross Domestic Product for 12 different European
countries
in 3
years
(2002,2007 and 2012). The given bar chart compares data in percentages.
Overall
, we can clearly see that from the bar chart, Switzerland has the highest amount of percentage for all 3
years
while
Estonia has the lowest percentage for every
year
.
While
some
countries
such
as Belgium, Estonia, Spain, and Switzerland remain at the same percentages over the 10
years
period, there are
also
some decreases and increases in the other 8 nations. We can easily say that Switzerland has the lead by 11% of expenditure every
year
although
it remains at the same amount.
Such
as Switzerland`s spending there are a few more
countries
which unchanged over the 10
years
period and these are Belgium, Spain, and Estonia and these
countries
' percentages are 10%, 8%, and 3% respectively.
On the other hand
, there are small increases and decreases over the
years
in other
countries
. When we look at the rises, all 5
countries
(Poland, Slovenia, Lithuania, Norway, and Denmark) have the same amount of growth which is around 1%.
Furthermore
, all of these changes were in 2012.
However
, there are 3
countries
seen downward by the
year
2012 and these counties are France, Luxembourg, and Netherlands. The biggest fall was in France by 2% in 2012 as it saw a little increase of approximately 1% by the
year
2007.
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Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "percentages" was used 5 times.
Vocabulary: The word "decreases" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "increases" was used 3 times.
Vocabulary: The word "remain" was used 2 times.
Topic Vocabulary:
  • Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
  • expenditure
  • percentage
  • trend
  • increase
  • decrease
  • comparison
  • notable
  • pattern
  • exceptional
  • deviation
  • neighbouring countries
  • economic policies
  • public health
  • data analysis
  • statistical comparison
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