Thw chart below shows the health spending among five different countries in 2002 From the graph below, we can get the idea about different health spending proportions of GDP in different countries in 2002. Among those five countries, USA had the highest total spending proportion, which was 14% in 2002. Germany ranked in the second place, whose health spending took 12% proportion of GDP. France and Italy took the third and forth places, having 11% and 9% proportion respectively. Finally, Japan had the lowest scale, which was only 8% in the whole GDP. Respectively, American government also paid the largest attention to public health. In 2002, America’s public health spending reached 10% among the GDP. Germany also stressed public health a lot, which used 9% of GDP in public health spending. Compared to Germany and USA, France and Italy did not have such a large amount public health spending in GDP. Meanwhile, Japan had the lowest proportion in public health spending, which was 2% in 2002. Though France had higher proportion than Japan, both in total health spending and public health spending, its private health spending was as low as Japan’s, which was only 2% of total GDP. Compared with them, Italy took higher amount of GDP, which was 3%. At the same time, citizen lived in Germany did not pay the same attention to health spending as their government did. In fact, private spending only took nearly 4% of GDP in Germany. However, American people stressed their health a lot. American private health spending reached an amazing important position of 10% in 2002, which was even higher than American public health spending.