Horizontal Bar Chart Example

A horizontal bar chart places categories on the vertical axis and values on the horizontal axis. This example ranks support issue types, making longer labels easier to read without rotating or abbreviating them.

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Example data

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Issue type	Tickets
Billing and invoices	184
Login and account access	156
Third-party integrations	121
Export and download errors	96
Mobile layout questions	74

How to structure the data

01Use one category column and one or more numeric series.
02Sort descending when rank is the main story; preserve source order when order carries meaning.
03Horizontal orientation works with side-by-side, stacked, and 100% stacked layouts.

What this example shows

Use horizontal bars when category labels are long or a ranked list should be easy to scan.

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