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 diagram compares the proportions of health expenses in twelve different European countries in the years 2002, 2007 and 2012.
Overall
it is immediately apparent that Switzerland
spent more over all the 3 years
Comparatively, Switzerland
which spent the highest amount and Estonia which made the least investment in the health sector are both observed to have used the same proportion of money in each of the three different years at about 11% and 3% respectively. Similarly
, Belgium and Spain have the same trends as Switzerland
and Estonia at 10% and 8% respectively.
Whilst Denmark, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Slovenia noticed an increase in the investment made from 2007, Luxembourg and the Netherlands by contrast
saw a decrease. In France however
, there were fluctuations with the most percentage being channeled
at 11% in the year 2007 making that the highest investment compared to the other countries but for Change the spelling
channelled
Switzerland
for that year.Submitted by nmaureen03 on
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