How to scale a barplot in tikz without scaling the text?

Question

I have a barplot in latex in tikz, that I want to scale (reduce width, increase length), but without the text having the same effect.

\begin{figure}
\centering
\resizebox{0.8\textwidth}{1.3\textwidth}{
\begin{tikzpicture}
\pgfplotsset{every tick label/.append style={font=\tiny}}
\begin{axis}[ xmajorgrids=true,
xbar, xmin=0,
xlabel={Gini Coefficient, OECD Countries \%},
symbolic y coords={{Australia},{Austria},{Belgium},{Canada},{Chile},{Costa Rica},{Czech Republic},{Denmark},{Estonia},{Finland},{France},{Germany},{Greece},{Hungary},{Iceland},{Ireland},{Israel},{Italy},{Japan},{Korea},{Latvia},{Lithuania},{Luxembourg},{Mexico},{Netherlands},{New Zealand},{Norway},{Poland},{Portugal},{Slovak Republic},{Slovenia},{South Africa},{Spain},{Sweden},{Switzerland},{Turkey},{United Kingdom},{United States}},
ytick=data,
nodes near coords, nodes near coords align={horizontal},
ytick=data,
]
\addplot[fill=blue!90,draw=black!70,tickwidth = 0pt,bar width=4pt,label style={font=\small}, tick label style={font=\small}] coordinates {(0.33,{Australia}) (0.284,{Austria}) (0.266,{Belgium}) (0.307,{Canada}) (0.454,{Chile}) (0.48,{Costa Rica}) (0.253,{Czech Republic}) (0.263,{Denmark}) (0.314,{Estonia}) (0.266,{Finland}) (0.291,{France}) (0.294,{Germany}) (0.333,{Greece}) (0.288,{Hungary}) (0.255,{Iceland}) (0.297,{Ireland}) (0.344,{Israel}) (0.328,{Italy}) (0.339,{Japan}) (0.355,{Korea}) (0.346,{Latvia}) (0.378,{Lithuania}) (0.304,{Luxembourg}) (0.458,{Mexico}) (0.285,{Netherlands}) (0.349,{New Zealand}) (0.262,{Norway}) (0.284,{Poland}) (0.331,{Portugal}) (0.241,{Slovak Republic}) (0.244,{Slovenia}) (0.62,{South Africa}) (0.341,{Spain}) (0.282,{Sweden}) (0.296,{Switzerland}) (0.404,{Turkey}) (0.351,{United Kingdom}) (0.391,{United States})};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
}
\caption{\small{Gini coefficient, OECD countries, 2017 or latest available, source: \url{https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm}}}
\label{fig:giniOECD}
\end{figure}

I would like the bar charts a bit further apart to each other, the blank areas on top and at the end to be removed, the markers (text within the chart that show the values) to be smaller and all the text to be at normal scale, not skewed like that.

samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz · Answer 1 · 2019-07-07T10:59:52.713

Never ever use \resizebox (or \scalebox) for things that contain text.
to set the height and the width of a pgfplot, the height and width keywords can be used
don't put formatting instructions in arguments of macros like \caption. If you want the caption in another font size, you can adjust it with the help of the caption package

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{pgfplots}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[font=small]{caption}

\begin{document}

\begin{figure}[htbp]
\centering
\begin{tikzpicture}
\pgfplotsset{%
    width=.8\textwidth,
    height=1.5\textwidth
}
\begin{axis}[ 
    xmajorgrids=true,
    xbar, 
    xmin=0,
    xlabel={Gini Coefficient, OECD Countries \%},
    symbolic y coords={{Australia}, {Austria}, {Belgium}, {Canada}, {Chile}, {Costa Rica}, {Czech Republic}, {Denmark}, {Estonia}, {Finland}, {France}, {Germany}, {Greece}, {Hungary}, {Iceland}, {Ireland}, {Israel}, {Italy}, {Japan}, {Korea}, {Latvia}, {Lithuania}, {Luxembourg}, {Mexico}, {Netherlands}, {New Zealand}, {Norway}, {Poland}, {Portugal}, {Slovak Republic}, {Slovenia}, {South Africa}, {Spain}, {Sweden}, {Switzerland}, {Turkey}, {United Kingdom}, {United States}},
    ytick=data,
    nodes near coords, 
    nodes near coords align={horizontal},
     enlarge y limits=0.02,
]
\addplot[fill=blue!90,draw=black!70,tickwidth = 0pt,bar width=4pt,label style={font=\small}, tick label style={font=\small}] coordinates {(0.33,{Australia}) (0.284,{Austria}) (0.266,{Belgium}) (0.307,{Canada}) (0.454,{Chile}) (0.48,{Costa Rica}) (0.253,{Czech Republic}) (0.263,{Denmark}) (0.314,{Estonia}) (0.266,{Finland}) (0.291,{France}) (0.294,{Germany}) (0.333,{Greece}) (0.288,{Hungary}) (0.255,{Iceland}) (0.297,{Ireland}) (0.344,{Israel}) (0.328,{Italy}) (0.339,{Japan}) (0.355,{Korea}) (0.346,{Latvia}) (0.378,{Lithuania}) (0.304,{Luxembourg}) (0.458,{Mexico}) (0.285,{Netherlands}) (0.349,{New Zealand}) (0.262,{Norway}) (0.284,{Poland}) (0.331,{Portugal}) (0.241,{Slovak Republic}) (0.244,{Slovenia}) (0.62,{South Africa}) (0.341,{Spain}) (0.282,{Sweden}) (0.296,{Switzerland}) (0.404,{Turkey}) (0.351,{United Kingdom}) (0.391,{United States})};
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\caption{Gini coefficient, OECD countries, 2017 or latest available, source: \url{https://data.oecd.org/inequality/income-inequality.htm}}
\label{fig:giniOECD}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

Perfect, thank you very much! As you can see I am pretty new in latex, but the community is very strong and active thankfully! — Eli, Jul 07 '19 at 12:34
question, why are the countries shown inverse alphabetically in the bar chart, even though they were written alphabetically in the code??? — Eli, Aug 24 '19 at 21:55
@Eli Think of the plot as a two dimensional diagram with x and y axis. The countries are arranged with increasing y axis. If you want to invert the order: `\pgfplotsset{% width=.8\textwidth, height=1.5\textwidth, y dir=reverse }` — samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz, Aug 24 '19 at 23:58

How to scale a barplot in tikz without scaling the text?

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