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 chart illustrates current money spend for health spend by several European countries as percentages of GDP, divided by the years of 2002, 2007 and 2012.

Overall, the amount of countries spending at least 6% or more money on healthcare, exceeds those, who´s expenditure totals are less than 6%.

To start with, Belgium, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway and Switzerland all invested 10% or more of their GDP for health care in at least one of three given years. It should be mentioned, that Switzerland spend 11% of their money on healthcare in all three years, which makes the highest relative sum measured, while France only did this in 2007.

In Contrast to that, Estonia´s health expenditure is only 3% of their GDP, which makes it the least measured. Lithuania also does not surpass the 6% mark. However, the remaining countries, such as Spain, Slowenia, Poland and Luxemburg all spend between 6% and 8% of their income for healthcare in the three given years, only Slowenia stands out, since it spend 9% of it´s GDP for health in 2012.