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.

This

bar graph illustrates the proportion of

GDP

spent on

healthcare

(in percentages) by several European

countries

in three years (2002, 2007 and 2012).

Overall

, most

countries

dedicated around 8% of their

GDP

towards

healthcare

with the exception of Estonia, Lithuania and Poland. The highest expenditure was by the Swiss and the lowest by Estonia. It can be observed from the graph that Switzerland dedicated around 11% of its

GDP

to

healthcare

.

This

is followed by Belgium devoting 10% to

healthcare

.

Additionally

, the amount of

GDP

invested in the above-mentioned

countries

remained the same throughout the given time frame. Interestingly, similar amounts of funds were spent by Spain, Slovenia, and Luxembourg.

On the contrary

, Estonia dispursed about 3% of its

GDP

which accounts for the least contributions made among the given

countries

. Analysing the data

further

, Lithuania and Poland spent 5% and 6% respectively in 2002 and 2007.

This

figure grew by 1% for each of these

countries

by 2012.