The given bar chart indicates total spendings on health care as from percentage perspective of GDP in 12 European countries during the years of 2002, 2007 and 2012.

The bar diagram provides data related to the GDP of health of 12 countries in the European Union in three different years over a decade.

Overall

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, is appreciated that the percentage of healthy GPD is greater in the most developed nations than in others.

Firstly

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, it can be seen in the representation that the wealthiest zones are the ones who spend more money on their well-being, which is the case of Switzerland and Belgium, both maintained their rates throughout the years at 11% and 10%, respectively. Following quite closely are France, Denmark, Norway and the Netherlands, the first of them even reached in 2007 the expenditures of Switzerland,

while

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in the northern territories for 2002 and 2007 it did not experiment changes but in 2012 it grew up to 9%, oppositely the

last

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country decreased its GPD from 10% to 8% in that period of time.

Then

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Slovenia, Poland and Lithuania experimented the same as the Netherlands but starting from 9%, 7% and 6%, respectively.

In addition

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, the case of Luxembourg was similar to the northern territories but it started at 8% and in 2012 grew by 1%.

Lastly

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, the GPD of Spain with 8% and Estonia with 3% was not altered over that period.

To sum up

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, in general, during the decade of 2002 to 2012, the north of Europe spent more money on health services than the rest with few exceptions like Switzerland.