A horizontal bar chart displays the populations of ten countries, with steel-blue bars sorted by country name and population values scaled in thousands. The visualization uses D3 v5’s `scaleLinear` and `scaleBand` to map population counts to bar widths and country names to vertical positions, with `axisLeft`, `axisBottom`, and SVG `rect` elements for rendering. Data is loaded from a CSV via `d3.csv` and converted to numbers, showing a straightforward comparison of relative national population sizes.