In the bar chart, it is possible to observe the health expenditure totals, of specific European countries, as percentages of GDP for different years.
First of all, the country with the biggest percentage was Switzerland, with 11%, and with the smallest was Estonia, with only 3%. There were four countries, for which the percentage remain constant, Belgium, Estonia, Spain and Switzerland.
The rest of the countries had some variations, but very small ones, in most of the cases only a 1% change through all the years. In Denmark, Lithuania, Norway, Poland and Slovenia, the percentage did not change from 2002 to 2007 and went up by 1% in 2012. Only France, Netherlands and Luxembourg had a decrease in the percentage from 2002 to 2012.
Overall, there were very few changes in European health expenditure as a percentage of gross domestic products, this does not mean that these countries spent the same amount of money on health, due to the fact that we are looking at percentages and not quantities.
