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 graph illustrates the total health budget as a percentage of GDP for different European nations, for the years 2002, 2007 and 2012.

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, we observe that Belgium's, Switzerland's, Spain's, and Estonia's percentage figure is constant throughout the period. A similar case is experienced, in 2002 and 2007, in 5 countries.

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, in 2007, France had the highest proportion of Gross Domestic Product allocated for health.

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, in 2002, 2007, and 2012, Estonia had the lowest expenditure. On closer examination, it can be seen that Belgium's 10% of the budget was spent on Health, and

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number was the same across all the 3 years.

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, in Switzerland, Spain, and Estonia

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was 11%, 8%, and 4% respectively.

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, in 2002 and 2007, Slovenia, Luxembourg, and Spain used 8%.

On the other hand

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, Norway, Poland and spent nearly 9 dollars , and 8 dollars out of every 1000 dollars of Gross Domestic Product.

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, in 2007, France was a country where for every 100 euros of GDP more than 11 euros was utilized for developing healthcare facilities.