The chart demonstrates current health expenditure amounts in percent in relation to GDP for different European countries in 2002, 2007, and 2012.
Overall, Switzerland spent the biggest proportion of GDP on healthcare in every of the given years. At the same time, Estonia is the country that spent the smallest proportion. The percentage of health expenditure rates remains the same and doesn’t change throughout the given period in both of these countries.
Switzerland spent 11 percent of its entire GDP on healthcare in 2002, 2007, and 2012. It is immediately followed by Belgium in expenditure rates, which spent 1 percent less than Switzerland, but also in every of the given years. It is important to mention that France has high health expenditure percentage too, however in fluctuates in between the given years, ranging from 9 to 11 percent.
Estonia spent 3 percent of its GDP on health care in every of the given years, which is more than twice as less than any other country on the chart. Nevertheless, the expenditure rates in Estonia remained stable, they did not rise or decline.
