The line chart illustrates the proportion of adults who did not receive adequate health treatment between 2008 and 2022 in 6 countries in Europe.
Overall, except for Estonia, all states increased in 2022. Latvia, Sweden, and Estonia witnessed the largest fluctuations, whilst the remaining countries were relatively stable up to 2018. The UK saw the most dramatic increase from the lowest in 2012 to the highest in 2022.
Latvia had the highest number in 2010 with just over 20%, however, this steadily decreased to below 10% in 2020. Estonia had the wildest fluctuations, with around 6% in 2010, a massive jump to 20% in 2012, before falling again to 10% in 2014. Sweden started with around 14%, which steadily declined to below 5% in 2018 before increasing dramatically to just over 10% in 2022.
France, the UK and Ireland all started below 5% and remained relatively steady until 2018. The UK diverged from the other two in 2020, increasing dramatically to just under 10% in 2020; then above 15% in 2022, the highest of any country that year. The lowest percentage in 2022 was in Ireland, which only rose from around 3% in 2020 to just below 5%.