What is a donut chart in Office Excel or PowerPoint?

A doughnut or donut chart is a type of pie chart, where the middle part of the graph is an empty circle. Technically they visualize data the same purpose as an ordinary pie chart, however, they look lighter and this middle area can be used to add the key data value or symbol. However, if you use only a small size of the chart, the full circle pie chart is more visible.

Donut and pie charts represent data values by size of circle arc. Each chart category has arc size proportional to category value. The whole pie chart should represent 100%.

When to use Donut and Pie chart?

The pie chart and its subtypes such as a doughnut or 3d pies should be used to represent numerical values that compose a whole together. For example, a market share, a fraction of progress level, that finishes at 100%. The pie chart is well visible if there is a small number of categories, e.g. the top 4 products share compared to all the rest. Generally, pie charts are good to show rough proportions of categories.

When not to use Pie charts (and alike, donut circle graphs)?

Don’t use donut and pie charts to visualize more than 8 categories, because it will become unreadable. Also if the category is too small (less than 5%) it’s hardly visible on such a pie chart. In a pie chart it’s harder to read exact comparison of arc sizes (if it’s 2 times bigger than another arc or 1.5 times bigger), so if you want a reader to compare precisely categories values, it’s recommended to use another type of data charts - column or bar charts, for example.

Why to use these pie charts template?

To create quickly enhanced professional look of your data presentation, reuse our PowerPoint graphics with illustrated donut charts and business icons.

Enrich your Excel graphs by visual legends, represent categories visually. You can find there basic business icon set that you can extend further (see Related Diagrams section).

Colors of all chart elements and icons are easy to modify (all graphics is a vector format). So you can change them to colors of your template or company brand.

Pie and Donut charts are one of the most commonly used charts. The pie charts are the most effective way while dealing with a small collection of data. They are divided into segments, the arc of each segment shows the proportional value of each piece of data. They are excellent for showing the relational proportions between data.

Pie and Donuts Charts Data-driven Graphics contain ready-to-use slides:

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Why use Pie and Donuts Chart graphics:

You have a small number of categories to compare
You need only simple proportions and not specific percentages/values/li>
You need to do a part-to-whole data analysis
You want to highlight your purpose simply and uniquely to your audience
By using modern pie and doughnut design your presentation will look professional, persuasive and logical

Fully editable in PowerPoint set of vector shapes fully editable by using built-in PowerPoint tools, including

changing color of the icon filling and its outline
adding shadows
changing shape and size, rotating, flipping the object
putting shapes behind or on top of text

See editing demonstration in our HowTo Videos.

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