bar graph for the following data with different bar colors

[Nishan Lamichhane]

input str20 country pcexp
Greece 371
Portugal 474
Spain 646
Italy 784
Sweden 1245
Denmark 1456
Canada 1689
USA 2634
end

The above is my data. I would like to draw a bar graph for each country with pcexp( per-capita expenditure) as count with the number on the top of each bar. Stata should treat pcexp value as for example, frequency. And separate fill colors for each bar.

Any idea Nice people here?

[Nick Cox]

For a more professional look, don't do this in a bar chart. As Naomi Robbins says somewhere would you give a different colour to each word in a sentence?

For a professional look, consider highlighting just one country because it is of special interest to your story.

If you are determined to do it any way, it is easy to get different colours by supplying different variables or by telling Stata to treat your data as if they were several different variables. But it seems harder to do it in ways that (1) don't provoke an unnecessary legend (2) allow easy ordering by a helpful criterion (not something dopey like alphabetical name order).

This is one solution; there will be others.

clear 
input str20 country pcexp
Greece 371
Portugal 474
Spain 646
Italy 784
Sweden 1245
Denmark 1456
Canada 1689
USA 2634
end

* Stata Journal https://www.stata-journal.com/article.html?article=st0654 
myaxis order=country, sort(mean pcexp) descending 

separate pcexp, by(country) veryshortlabel 

set scheme s1color 
graph hbar (asis) pcexp?, nofill over(order) asyvars legend(off) ysc(alt titlegap(*5)) ytitle(explain pcexp here)

[Nishan Lamichhane]

I understood your point. Thank you very much sir.
Much appreciated.