Similar to the “Economist” style, we don’t use a vertical grid, avoid tick marks, and place the axis at the right, to highlight the latest data.
This code was written by Jake on TeX.SE.
\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\pgfplotsset{width=7cm,compat=1.8}
\usepackage{pgfplotstable}
\renewcommand*{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{sfmath}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\centering
\begin{axis}[
ybar, axis on top,
title={Cumulative Progress of Works},
height=8cm, width=15.5cm,
bar width=0.4cm,
ymajorgrids, tick align=inside,
major grid style={draw=white},
enlarge y limits={value=.1,upper},
ymin=0, ymax=100,
axis x line*=bottom,
axis y line*=right,
y axis line style={opacity=0},
tickwidth=0pt,
enlarge x limits=true,
legend style={
at={(0.5,-0.2)},
anchor=north,
legend columns=-1,
/tikz/every even column/.append style={column sep=0.5cm}
},
ylabel={Percentage (\%)},
symbolic x coords={
Sep-11,Oct-11,Nov-11,Dec-11,
Jan-12,Feb-12,
Mar-12,
Apr-12},
xtick=data,
nodes near coords={
\pgfmathprintnumber[precision=0]{\pgfplotspointmeta}
}
]
\addplot [draw=none, fill=blue!30] coordinates {
(Sep-11,75.4064)
(Oct-11, 72.7961)
(Nov-11,94.4597)
(Dec-11,66.6786)
(Jan-12,67.5600)
(Feb-12,88.2339)
(Mar-12,78.6138)
(Apr-12,58.9129) };
\addplot [draw=none,fill=red!30] coordinates {
(Sep-11,75.4064)
(Oct-11, 89.7961)
(Nov-11,94.4597)
(Dec-11,76.6786)
(Jan-12,77.5600)
(Feb-12,78.2339)
(Mar-12,88.6138)
(Apr-12,78.9129) };
\addplot [draw=none, fill=green!30] coordinates {
(Sep-11,75.4064)
(Oct-11, 89.7961)
(Nov-11,94.4597)
(Dec-11,76.6786)
(Jan-12,77.5600)
(Feb-12,78.2339)
(Mar-12,88.6138)
(Apr-12,78.9129) };
\legend{First Fix,Second Fix,Third Fix}
\end{axis}
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}