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 shows the percentage of GDP

that is

spent on healthcare in a number of different European

countries

over a ten-year

period

. There is a notable contrast between the different

countries

' expenditure on their GDP on health, with Switzerland and Belgium spending the largest over the

period

.

This

is compared to Lithuania and Estonia who spend the least, with Switzerland nearly spending 75% more than Estonia as a percentage of each country GDP’s. Over the ten-year

period

, the percentage spent on health does not change very much with some

countries

increasing (Denmark, Poland, Lithuania, Slovenia and Norway). But others were decreasing (France, Netherlands and Luxemburg) what they spent by one

percent

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over the

period

and some stayed the same (Spain and Estonia). The Netherlands is the only country whose spending changes by more than

this

degree dropping by two

percent

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.

Overall

, the amount of money spent on healthcare varied dramatically between many of the different

countries

.

Furthermore

, it appears that the amount of money spent by a majority of individual European

countries

fluctuated between the different years but not by much.