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. You should * GDP (Gross Domestic Product) is the total value of goods that are made and services that are provided in a country.

The bar chart depicts the

overall

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current health expense in the form of a percentage of

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for different countries of Europe within a time duration of 2002, 2007 and 2012.

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, Switzerland had the highest rate of investing money in the mentioned three years consecutively

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Estonia had the lowest number among all the countries present in the chart during the period. France

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spent as much as Switzerland in the year 2007. Because of possessing the highest rate of

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, Switzerland managed to spend more than 10% of the total

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on the healthcare sector in all the years mentioned earlier

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France managed to spend the same amount of money in only 2007. Meanwhile, Belgium decided to invest 10% of

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in all three years respectively.

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, Spain used 8% of its total

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in

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sector

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Lithuania decided to uplift their expenditure from more than 4% in 2002 and 2007 to 6% in 2012.

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, Estonia lacked health investment throughout the period which was around 3% of their total

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