What is a Horizontal Bar Graph?

A horizontal bar graph is basically represented in the form of rectangular bars with appropriate heights and lengths for the values they stand on the x-axis or y-axis. Even, they are very convenient because you can compare the items represented on a graph with large figures just by looking at them in quick observation.

• “X-Axis” represents the scale or numerical values measurement.
• “Y-Axis” shows the labels or categories that are being compared.

Parts of a Horizontal Bar Graph 

Horizontal bar graph is made up of various essential elements:

• Title: The graph’s title gives an overview of the information being displayed. It expresses the main concept or topic and generally appears at the top of the graph.

• Axes: These graphs basically axes on two points “x-axis” and “y-axis” and their work is to hold the complete representation or data values of the graph.

• Horizontal Bars: The length of these horizontally oriented bars varies according to the related data values. Here, each data value is represented by the bar.

• Labels: It used to indicate and give more details about the variables or categories on the x-axis and the values that correlate to them on the y-axis.

• Scale: Measurement intervals or units for the data values are established by the scale on the y-axis that offers a point of the bars’ height or length that is used to compare data.

Scale of Horizontal Bar Graphs 

A horizontal bar graph’s scale is how the data is shown or measured along the vertical axis and the length of each bar in a horizontal bar graph reflects the value of the data to visualise. Even, It precisely proportionates the data values to represent the data on the scale.

Horizontal Bar Graph, also known as a Horizontal Bar Chart, is a type of graph used to represent categorical data. In a horizontal bar graph, the categories are displayed along the vertical axis, while the numerical values corresponding to each category are represented by horizontal bars along the horizontal axis.

In this article, we will discuss the Horizontal Bar Graph in detail, including its types, how to read it, and how to plot it.