EXAMPLE 10 High taxes, reconsidered

Figure 10.4 is a respectable bar graph comparing taxes as a percentage of gross domestic product in eight countries. The countries are arranged alphabetically. Wouldn’t it be clearer to arrange them in order of their tax burdens? Figure 10.12 does this. This simple change improves the graph by making it clearer where each country stands in the group of eight countries. Figure 10.12 also demonstrates the ability to display a bar graph horizontally.