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.
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The bar chart illustrates the service of providing medical care as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP) over the period. Data was measured by percentage and compared by 12 countries:  Belgium and Denmark. Estonia, France, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Switzerland. 
Overall
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, the highest expenditure was in 3 countries,
whereas
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the lowest was in Estonia for an estimated 3 years.  Switzerland's people spending trended the most money on health care services, with over 10% stable for 2002, 2007, and 2012.
This
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was followed by Belgium and France, where spent a maximum of 10% as GDP over a period. The Netherlands and Norway
also
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had a minor than greatest amount of health expenditure, between approximately 8% and 10%. 
On the other hand
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, for a decade, it is seen that the least medical expenditure trended in Estonia, at nearly 3%.
However
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, most countries spent equally over the period 2002, 2007, and 2012, but in France, in 2007 year more medical services compared to the 2002 and 2012 years.
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Vocabulary: The word "compared" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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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