Leader Line for marker label in a plot

[Josna Rani]

HI,

I see many posts about overlapping marker labels in a plot. I have tried everything with marker label options( size, position etc). I would like to know whether its is possible and how to produce a plot with leader lines for marker label like in the example below:

[Nick Cox]

It's possible but not trivial. In principle each marker line can be drawn with another twoway command.

Not the question, but I would use two or three character country abbreviations here. The alternative is a lot of work that your readers likely won't appreciate.

[Josna Rani]

Thanks Nick. I intend to use 3 character country code as you have suggested. Could you plea elaborate abut the twoway command for leader lines?

My data:
clear
input str3 Countrycode byte WomnEvrScrnd double CCdeathsASR
"RWA" 12 25.4
"BEN" . 13.5
"SLB" 16 20.3
"MWI" 19 66.4
end
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I am using :

 twoway (scatter WomnEvrScrnd CCdeathsASR if GAVIeligibl1==1 , jitter(17) msymbol(circle) mlabel( Countrycode ) mlabsize (t
> iny) mlabvpos(pos) mlabgap(0.7in)) (scatter WomnEvrScrnd CCdeathsASR if GAVIeligibl1==2 , jitter(17) msymbol(triangle) mlabe
> l( Countrycode ) mlabsize (tiny) mlabvpos(pos) mlabgap(0.7in))

It gives me this

:

[Nick Cox]

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