The chart and table below give information about healthcare resources and life expectancy in different countries. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar chart illustrates the number of hospital

beds

available for patients in 8 different

countries

while

the table compares government spending and life expectancy in three of those

countries

,

Japan

, the Netherlands and the USA.

Overall

we can see that

although

Japan

spends the least on health care, it has the highest life expectancy and the most

beds

available for its

people

. A closer look at the graph shows that most of the

countries

mentioned only have around 4

beds

available per thousand

people

. There are two exceptions to

this

, Germany, who have twice that number, and

Japan

, whose number is significantly higher, at 14

beds

for every thousand

people

. From the

table

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we can see that the USA, which has the highest healthcare expenditure of the three

countries

mentioned ($6,719 per person), has a life expectancy of only 78. As mentioned previously,

Japan

spends the least on health care, only $2,581 per person. Despite

this

Japan

’s

people

can expect to live to be 83 years of age, 3 years longer than

people

in the Netherlands, whose government spend $900 more on them. (184 words)