Radial bar chart

author(s): Pawel Dalek

by Sascha

HTML

<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/highcharts-more.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/exporting.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/export-data.js"></script>
<script src="https://code.highcharts.com/modules/accessibility.js"></script>

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    https://github.com/lafeber/world-flags-sprite/blob/master/LICENSE -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://github.com/downloads/lafeber/world-flags-sprite/flags16.css" />

<figure class="highcharts-figure">
    <div id="container"></div>
    <p class="highcharts-description">
        A polar bar chart is similar to a bar chart, but the y-axis is circular.
        In this demo we see the total Winter Olympics medals earned for the top 10
        countries.
    </p>
</figure>

CSS

#container {
    height: 600px;
}

.highcharts-figure, .highcharts-data-table table {
    min-width: 320px; 
    max-width: 800px;
    margin: 1em auto;
}

.highcharts-data-table table {
	font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;
	border-collapse: collapse;
	border: 1px solid #EBEBEB;
	margin: 10px auto;
	text-align: center;
	width: 100%;
	max-width: 500px;
}
.highcharts-data-table caption {
    padding: 1em 0;
    font-size: 1.2em;
    color: #555;
}
.highcharts-data-table th {
	font-weight: 600;
    padding: 0.5em;
}
.highcharts-data-table td, .highcharts-data-table th, .highcharts-data-table caption {
    padding: 0.5em;
}
.highcharts-data-table thead tr, .highcharts-data-table tr:nth-child(even) {
    background: #f8f8f8;
}
.highcharts-data-table tr:hover {
    background: #f1f7ff;
}

.ld-label {
	width:200px;
	display: inline-block;
}

.ld-url-input {
	width: 500px; 
}

.ld-time-input {
	width: 40px;
}

JavaScript

Highcharts.chart('container', {
    colors: ['#FFD700', '#C0C0C0', '#CD7F32'],
    chart: {
        type: 'column',
        inverted: true,
        polar: true
    },
    title: {
        text: 'Winter Olympic medals per existing country (TOP 5)'
    },
    
    xAxis: {
    
        categories: [
            'Norway <span class="f16"><span id="flag" class="flag no">' +
            '</span></span>',
            'United States <span class="f16"><span id="flag" class="flag us">' +
            '</span></span>',
            'Germany <span class="f16"><span id="flag" class="flag de">' +
            '</span></span>',
            'Canada <span class="f16"><span id="flag" class="flag ca">' +
            '</span></span>',
            'Austria <span class="f16"><span id="flag" class="flag at">' +
            '</span></span>'
        ]
    },
    yAxis: {
        
        reversedStacks: false,
        endOnTick: true,
        
    },
    plotOptions: {
        column: {
            stacking: 'normal',
        
        }
    },
    series: [{
        name: 'Gold medals',
        data: [132, 105, 92, 73, 64]
    }, {
        name: 'Silver medals',
        data: [125, 110, 86, 64, 81]
    }, {
        name: 'Bronze medals',
        data: [111, 90, 60, 62, 87]
    }]
});