set term png size 600,600 set output './gnuplot.png' set title "Histogram example" set style data histograms set xtics nomirror rotate by -45 $DATA << EOD "1891-1900" 234081 181288 18167 "1901-1910" 668209 808511 41635 "1911-1920" 453649 442693 33746 "1921-1930" 32868 30680 15846 "1931-1940" 3563 7861 4817 "1941-1950" 24860 3469 12189 "1951-1960" 67106 36637 18575 "1961-1970" 20621 5401 9192 EOD plot $DATA using 2:xtic(1) title 'Austria',\ $DATA using 3:xtic(1) title 'Hungary',\ $DATA using 4:xtic(1) title 'Belgium' unset output