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 shows the percentage of GDP

that is

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spent on healthcare in a number of different European

countries

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over a ten-year

period

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. There is a notable contrast between the different

countries

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

period

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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

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

countries

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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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per cent

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over the

period

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

this

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degree dropping by two

percent

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per cent

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Overall

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

countries

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

countries

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fluctuated between the different years but not by much.

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Topic Vocabulary:

Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
expenditure
percentage
trend
increase
decrease
comparison
notable
pattern
exceptional
deviation
neighbouring countries
economic policies
public health
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