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bar-stacked-horizontal

Horizontal stacked bars — composition per row.

Horizontal version of bar-stacked-vertical. Good for long category labels with composition that needs explanation. Often used in survey results to show share of agree/neutral/disagree across many groups.

When to use

Many categories (countries, segments) where each is broken into shares of a same set of subcategories.

When NOT to use

Time on the x-axis (use vertical stacking).

Rhetorical roles

  • compare
  • decompose

Variants & related

Required primitives

  • has_legend
  • has_axis_titles

Optional primitives

  • has_data_labels
  • has_source_note

Common anti-patterns

  • rainbow-palette
  • too-many-segments

Disambiguation rules

  • Bars run horizontally; each bar is segmented along its length.
  • If all bars sum to 100%, this is bar-stacked-100pct.