Comparative Bar Charts by Indicator

The purpose of this page is to compare data for one or two indictors across multiple countries using a bar chart. Each bar that represents a country is color-coded by region and income group.

You can choose to display one or two indicators on the chart. Select a primary indicator from the drop down menu. If you wish, you can select a second indicator in the Secondary Indicator drop down menu. If you opt for having two indicators, the primary indicator's axis will be on the left of the chart and appear as bars and the secondary indicator's axis will be on the right and the data will be displayed as dots. Furthermore, when you choose to display two indicators, you can only sort countries in alphabetical order (you cannot sort by ascending or descending order).

Select the country(ies) you would like to include in the bar chart by first clicking on a country name on the list on the left and then clicking on the Add button until the country appears on the Selected Countries list on the right (you can select multiple countries simultaneously by holding down the Control key while clicking on country names). For easy selection of a number of countries you can apply filters by World Bank Regions and/or World Bank Income Group. Just select a group, then the corresponding list of countries will appear in the box Countries, and click on the Select All button for the selected countries to appear on the list on the right.

Chart Option: If desired, you may select some optional chart features. "Narrow Bar Width" keeps the bar width in a narrow profile (this is recommended); "Show Average" displays the average value for the displayed countries as a horizontal line; "Start from zero" will rescale the x-axis by setting the minimum value at 0 instead of setting it at the minimum value of the data range; “show income group ave” and “show regional average” allow for displaying averages of peer groups when only one indicator is selected; and, "Sort" provides options to sort the bar graph in Ascending, Descending or Alphabetical order.

Click “Create Chart” to create/update the chart. The data will be displayed in a table under the chart.

Click on one of the download options if you want to save the data in Excel or Word. That way, you can use the data to create your own graphs, charts or tables.

To save the chart and insert it in reports or documents, place your cursor on the chart, right click and select Save picture as.