This bar chart displays the 2022 population of RICH, using horizontal bars to compare total deaths across the top three countries from a COVID-19 dataset. The visualization renders as an SVG within a React component, leveraging D3 v5 APIs including `scaleBand`, `scaleLinear`, `axisBottom`, and `axisLeft`. Data is loaded asynchronously via D3’s `csv` function from a GitHub gist, with only the first three records shown. Axes are drawn manually with tick marks and labels, while purple gridlines extend from the x-axis ticks.