MATLAB: Displaying names vertically on the x axis

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I am doing a school project on environmental analysis and was trying to compare various factors such as carbon emission energy consumption, forest area and population. I have managed to plot a simple 2D graph as below but am keen to place the names of the countries at the bottom of each bar vertically @ the x axis point. Would that be possible ?
Also i felt that the way i am visualizing my data is rather bad or unclear. Is there a better way like adding colored bar or using graphs or 3d scatter ?
My Code would be as below..
                  %1-21, 22-42, 43-63, 64-84%
  combine = table(C1990, C1991, C1992, C1993, C1994, C1995, C1996, C1997, C1998, C1999, C2000, C2001, C2002, C2003, C2004, C2005, C2006, C2007, C2008, C2009, C2010,...
                  F1990, F1991, F1992, F1993, F1994, F1995, F1996, F1997, F1998, F1999, F2000, F2001, F2002, F2003, F2004, F2005, F2006, F2007, F2008, F2009, F2010,...
                  E1990, E1991, E1992, E1993, E1994, E1995, E1996, E1997, E1998, E1999, E2000, E2001, E2002, E2003, E2004, E2005, E2006, E2007, E2008, E2009, E2010,...
                  P1990, P1991, P1992, P1993, P1994, P1995, P1996, P1997, P1998, P1999, P2000, P2001, P2002, P2003, P2004, P2005, P2006, P2007, P2008, P2009, P2010,...
                  'RowNames', Country)
year = 1990:1:2010;
h1 = combine(1:59 ,:) 
h2 = combine(:, { 'C1990' 'F1990' 'E1990' 'P1990' }) 
% Draw a bar chart for a number of variables 
vars = { 'C1990' , 'F1990' , 'E1990' , 'P1990' }
ylabels = {'Carbon Emission' 'Forest Land Area' 'Energy COnsumption' 'Population'};
for i = 1: length( vars ) 
 % field/variable names for structures/datasets must be char arrays 
 variable = char( vars (i) ); 
 % dynamically reference dataset variable 
 data = combine.( variable ); 
 figure; 
 bar( data ); 
 set(gca,'XTickLabel',{'Afghanistan','Argentina','Australia','Austria','Belgium','Bangladesh','Brazil','Canada','Switzerland','Chile','China','Czech Republic','Germany','Denmark','Egypt','Spain','Finland','France','United Kingdom','Georgia','Greece','Hong Kong','Hungary','Indonesia','India','Ireland','Iran','Iraq','IceLand','Israel','Italy','Jamaica','Jordan','Japan','Cambodia','Sri Lanka','Maldives','Myanmar','Malaysia','Netherlands','Norway','Nepal','New Zealand','Pakistan','Peru','Philippines','Poland','Portugal','Paraguay','Russia','Saudi Arabia','Singapore','Sweden','Thailand','Turkey','Ukraine','United States','Vietnam','South Africa','World'})
 title( ylabels(i) );
 %xlabel( 'x' );
 ylabel( ylabels(i) );
end

Best Answer

bar first -- call bar with the data in an array and use the 'grouped' option. See examples at
doc bar
for options within the basic capabilities of bar
As for the titles, unfortunately 'xticklabel' property doesn't honor TeX interpreter so you can't add rotation or such to them if you use tick labels. You can, however, set the 'xticklabel' property to [] to not display them and then use text to write the labels where you wish and with TeX interpreter properties.
text(x,y,xtiklabs,'rotation',90)
where xtiklabs is your above hardcoded labels array and x, y are the position vectors of the locations at which you wish to place the text.
doc text % and links therein will provide examples and details...
Enjoy... :)
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