The bar chart below shows current health expenditure totals as percentages of GDP* for various European countries for the years 2002, 2007 and 2012.

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bar chart provides information about how much proportion of

GDP

was spent on

healthcare

services

in twelve different countries of Europe in three different years including, 2002, 2007 and 2012.

overall

,

it is clear that

Switzerland spends the highest and same proportion of

GDP

on

healthcare

services

in all three years

while

Estonia spends less. In all three years, Spain, Belgium, and Switzerland

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maintained similar levels of spending, with approximately 8%, 10%, and 11% of their

GDP

invested in the

healthcare

sectors from which Switzerland's expenditure was slightly highest than other countries, but in 2007 France did the similar level of spending, around 11% of the

GDP

on

healthcare

services

.

however

, Estonia spends the lowest proportion of

GDP

on medical care around 3% respectively.

furthermore

, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovenia's spending increased over the year and in 2012, the expenditure was around 6%, 7%, and 9% respectively,

while

the Netherlands and Luxembourg's spending decreased over a ten-year period, and they utilized about 8% and 7% of their

GDP

on the medical

services

respectively.