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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how much money is spent on

health

care across Europe and how

this

spending has changed in the

last

ten

years

.

Overall

we can see that there was very little difference in

ten

years

in the

percent

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of

GDP

spent on

health

but there was a lot of difference in the

percent

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spending on

health

in different

countries

. Spending for all

three

years

was exactly

same

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in four of the

countries

with

three

countries

spending one

percent

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more of

GDP

on

health

over

ten

years

and four

countries

spend

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one

percent

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less.

In contrast

to

this

,

Netherlands

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the Netherlands

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was the only country where there was a bigger change and spent one

percent

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less

GDP

every year in the chart. It is

also

interesting that Belgium Denmark France Norway and Switzerland had

highest

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percentage

spending

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of spending

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on

health

of their

GDP

with it

was

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around

ten

percent

. Switzerland was the highest at 11

percent

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in all

three

years

.

This

was

considerable

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more than Estonia at only 3% in all

three

years

.