Band 7+: The chart below shows spending on health among three different countries between 1990 to 2010. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. Write at least 150 words.

The bar chart compares the billions of dollars spent on health among the countries Japan, Italy and France, in a period spanning from 1990 to 2010.

Overall, Japan spent more than the other two, during all the 20 years. Meanwhile, Italy was in second place, although it reached the same amount spent by France in the end of the period.

Since the beginning, Japan’s spandings were increasing gradually every year, except for 2005—when it retracted from close to 14 billion to 12 billion dollars—returning to grow and reaching 14 billion five years after, in 2010. In contrast, Italy only had a considerable rise in 1995, with 8 billion dollar spent, approximately the double of its spends in 1990. Then it fluctuated in a range of 2 billion, and ended the period with 10 billion dollars spent.

France, in the other hand, had the modestest spents of all the three, until 2005, remaining under the mark of 4 billion. However, in 2010, it had a surprising growth of 400% and ended the period with the same amount spent in Italy, 10 billion dollars, which indicates a variance off trend, probably caused by a particular event of that period.