The table below shows the information about spending on health in five different countries in 2002. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The given table illustrates the percentage of total expenditure on healthcare in five different nations namely

Japan

, Italy,

Germany

,

France

and the

USA

in 2002.

Overall

, the highest proportion of total budget spending on health was exhibited in

France

and the opposite can be seen in

Japan

. In 2002, accounting for 11.4%, the highest amount of money expended on health belonged to

France

, followed by

Germany

and the

USA

with 9.3% and 8.6%, respectively. The figure for Italy was 7.7% - lower than 3.7% compared with the highest. The Japanese spent the lowest percentage of their total expenditure which was just 7.2%. More specifically, looking at the public spending category,

France

expended the highest quantity among 5 countries - 8,6%. The proportion of

Germany

and the

USA

were 7% and 6%, respectively.

While

the total expenditure of Italy was higher than

Japan

's, the public spending of Italy was lower than

Japan

's 0.5%.

Similarly

, in the private spending section, the highest spending on health was still witnessed in

France

- 2.8%. The figure for

Germany

was 2.3%,

whereas

the

USA

's was 2.6% -

in contrast

with the total sector. The quantity of Italy was 2.4% - just lower than the highest 0.4%. In

this

category,

Japan

still spent the least with just 1.4%