Band 4+: 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.

The graphic accurately gives account for the percentage of the Gross Domestic Prouduct spent on building the health sector of a European country spent in the years 2002,2007 and 2012.

Switzerland tends to prioritize the health of its citizens the most , spending 11% of it’s GDP on the health sector in all three years. Estonia on the contrary only spends 3% of its GDP for the same. Developed and thriving European countries like Belgium,Denmark,France and switzerland have had an impressive ecpenditure on the health sectors of their respective countries. Most countries spent the least on the health sector in the year 2007 apart from France which set high standards spending a whopping 11% of their GDP which was tied with switzerland for the highest that year. Poland and Lithuania spent only half of their GDP as compared to what switzerland did in the year 2012. Spain,Belgium and Switzerland have stagnated their exepentditure throughout the decade.

European countries tend to spend a lot on the health in infrastructure on their countries which has helped the become major global powers in the terms of medicine and health.