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 chart illustrates

health

expenditure as

percentage

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a percentage

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of GDP for twelve European countries in the

years

2002, 2007 and 2012. The number

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unit

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is in

percentage

Overall

, it is apparently shown that Switzerland spent the highest

percentage

of GDP on

health

and it remained the same during the researched period.

Additionally

, Estonia recorded the

least

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lowest

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percentage

and again was stable during the three

years

. France and the Netherlands

depicts

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notable variations in

the

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health

expenditure from 2002 to 2012,

whereas

in general, there

was

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no significant changes in the countries over the period. From the graph, Switzerland spent the

most

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percentage

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about 11% in 2002 which remained

the

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same rate in 2007 and 2012.

Similarly

, Belgium, Estonia and Spain spent 10%, around 3% and precisely 8% respectively of their GDP during the three

years

. France had fluctuations in the proportion of Gross Domestic Product used

on

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health

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the health

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sector from 10% in 2002 to 11% in 2007,

then

it decreased to about 9% in 2012. Probing

further

,

Netherlands

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clearly had a steady decrease

by

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1% during the stipulated

years

.