Makkar ielts graphs

The graph below shows the information about medical care in three European 
countries between 1980 and 2000. Summarise the information by selecting and 
reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. 
1980 
1990 
2000 
Physicians (per 
1000 people) 
Austria 
0.8 
0.9 
1.0 
France 
2.4 
2.2 
1.3 
Sweden 
3.6 
3.0 
3.8 
Hospital 
beds 
(per 1000 
people) 
Austria 
1.4 
3.1 
3.7 
France 
0.2 
0.8 
1.6 
Sweden 
6.4 
6.4 
6.9 
Average stay in 
hospitals 
(in 
days) 
Austria 
18 
6 
8 
France 
9 
7 
5 
Sweden 
23 
18 
21 
The given table illustrates the health care facilities in three European countries namely 
Austria, France and Sweden from 1980 to 2000. A cursory glance at the graph is enough to 
make it clear that the hospital beds per thousand people increased, whereas the average stay 
in hospital decreased with time. 
In Austria, the number of doctors grew marginally from 0.8 per 1000 people in 1980 to 1.0 
per 1000 people. Surprisingly, the availability of physicians fell in France, from 2.4/1000 to 
1.3/1000 people, from 1980 to 2000. Sweden had the best healthcare with 3.6 doctors per 1000 
people in 1980. This number fell in 1990 to 3.0/1000 people, but picked up again in 2000 and 
became 3.8/1000 people.
France saw the most marked growth in the number of hospital beds per thousand from 0.2 in 
1980 to 1.6 by 2000, which was an eight-fold increase. In Austria, the escalation in the 
number of hospital beds per 1000 people was from 1.4 to 3.7 in the given period. Sweden 
took the lead here also by having 6.4 beds /1000 people in 1980 and 1990. In 2000, the 
number of hospital beds was 6.9 / 1000 people. 
The average stay in hospitals was the maximum in Sweden at around 20 days on an average 
throughout the given time period. In France, the average stay in hospital decreased 
gradually from 9 days in 1980 to 5 days in 2000. Austria saw a marked decrease in the days 
of hospitalization from 18 in 1980 to 8 in 2000. 
Overall, it is manifest from the graph that the Swedes enjoyed the best healthcare, whereas 
France was at the last position among the given three countries over the given period of two 
decades.