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 represents the amount of money spent on health facilities as a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product in the
years
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2002, 2007 and 2012 in
the
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Europe.
Overall
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, Estonia had the lowest expenditure on health sectors in all the given 3
years
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and Switzerland can be identified as the most paid counties for
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medicine. Looking
in to
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details, Switzerland ,Belgium and Estonia did not show a variation in expenditure in the provided
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, their percentages are 11, 10 ,and 3 respectively. France had a peak in the proportion of expenses for
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medicines in
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2007. It is interesting to note the expenses
kept
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constant in 2002 and 2007 in all the European regions except in
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France.
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Denmark, Norway, Slovenia, Poland, and Lithuania, showed
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an
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increased amount of paying outs in the year 2012 when
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with
other
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the other
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two
years
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. In
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the Netherlands
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Netherlands
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Netherlands,
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there was a downward trend in purchasing medical facilities from 2002 to 2012.
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Vocabulary: Replace the words years with synonyms.
Vocabulary: The word "show" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "amount" was used 2 times.
Vocabulary: The word "percentage" 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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