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Band 6+: 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.

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The image shows a bar graph of European Health Expenditure as a Percentage of Gross Domestic Product for the years 2002, 2007, and 2012. It lists 15 countries in descending order of 2012 expenditure percentages with Portugal at the top with 10.8% and Denmark at the bottom with 6.1%. The bars for 2002 are in red, 2007 in blue, and 2012 in orange. Increases in expenditure percentages from 2002 to 2012 range from 0.3% (Denmark) to 3.7% (Portugal), while some countries show decreases from 2007 to 2012, with the largest decrease being 1.1% (Greece).

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The given bar chart illustrates the proportion of GDP which is spent on health in different European countries every five years from 2002 to 2012.

Overall ,most of the European countries are presented here spent around 8 % to 10 % of GDP on health care during this period. For the majority of them, its tendency are only slight fluctuation.

In the given period, Switzerland observed a remain and was the highest of all countries surveyed with eleven percent.In contrast, the lowest rate of expenditure on GDP was Estonia. The number remained constant in all the time surveyed with only three percent.

There are two more countries that a have lower average of allocation on health field as percentage of GDP. Lithuania and Poland witnessed a slight decline to one percent ,with the respective figures being from six percent and seven percent in 2012 to five percent and six percent in the last time surveyed.

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6.5

The main features of the bar chart are identified, but there are some inaccuracies and omissions in the report. The comparisons between countries and over time are somewhat limited.

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The report is somewhat coherent, but there are issues with the organization of ideas and the flow of information. Paragraphing could be improved for better clarity and structure.

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There is an attempt to use a range of vocabulary, but some inaccuracies and repetitions are present. More precise and varied word choices could enhance the lexical resource.

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While there is an attempt to use a variety of sentence structures, there are grammatical errors and awkward phrasings throughout the report. More attention to grammar and sentence construction is needed.

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