Different colors for graph bars

[Kanika Dua]

Hello,

I have a basic doubt. I am trying to plot a graph on GDP per capita which has 2 bars- one for OECD and another for non OECD countries. I want to have two different colors for each bar group. But, the following command gives me the same color bar for OECD and non OECD countries.

graph bar (mean) wb_gdppercap, over(OECD,relabel(1 "Non OECD" 2 "OECD")) title("GDP per Capita")ytitle("GDP per capita") bar(1, color(maroon) fintensity(inten80)) bar(2, color(navy) fintensity(inten60))

Can someone please explain what I am doing wrong here? I have inserted the graph here for reference.

Thank you very much!

[Andrew Musau]

Look at the -asyvars- option.

help graph bar

[Nick Cox]

The mean over GDP per head for countries in any group has two limitations:

1. It takes no account of population size.

2. The distributions are so skew that medians or geometric means may be more useful.