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I am trying to generate a histogram like the following:

While going through the examples pgf plots, I was able to generate a histogram similar to the following:

using the code from the example link shared above:

    documentclass{article}

    usepackage{csvsimple}

    usepackage{longtable}

    usepackage{xcolor}

    usepackage{booktabs}

    usepackage{caption}

    usepackage{pgfplots}







    begin{document}

    begin{tikzpicture}

    begin{axis}[

        x tick label style={

            /pgf/number format/1000 sep=},

        ylabel=Year,

        enlargelimits=0.05,

        legend style={at={(0.5,-0.1)},

        anchor=north,legend columns=-1},

        ybar interval=0.7,

    ]

    addplot 

        coordinates {(2012,408184) (2011,408348)

            (2010,414870) (2009,412156)};

    addplot 

        coordinates {(2012,388950) (2011,393007) 

            (2010,398449) (2009,395972)};

    legend{Men,Women}

    end{axis}

    end{tikzpicture}

    end{document}

Is there a way with pgf plots, where I could generate custom looking histogram?

This is a simple-minded proposal. Note that I changed from ybar interval to ybar, see here. The main idea is to use rounded corners but then one has to fix the legend to have a smaller radius of the rounded corners. I also removed the y axis and added nodes near coords, as requested.

documentclass{article}

usepackage{pgfplots}

pgfplotsset{compat=1.16}





begin{document}

begin{tikzpicture}

pgfplotsset{/pgfplots/ybar legend/.style={

    /pgfplots/legend image code/.code={

        draw [##1,/tikz/.cd,rounded corners=1pt,bar width=3pt,yshift=-0.2em,bar shift=0pt]

        plot coordinates {(0cm,0.8em) (2*pgfplotbarwidth,0.6em)};

    },

},}         

begin{axis}[hide y axis,axis x line=bottom,

    x tick label style={

        /pgf/number format/1000 sep=},

    %ylabel=Year,

    enlargelimits=0.15,

    legend style={at={(0.5,-0.1)},        anchor=north,legend columns=-1},

    ybar,bar width=2em,

    %symbolic x coords={2009,2010,2011,2012},

    ybar legend,

    nodes near coords=pgfmathprintnumber{pgfplotspointmeta},

    every node near coord/.append style={

    anchor=mid west,

    rotate=70} % from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/27143/121799

]

addplot[rounded corners=8pt,fill=blue!60!black,

] 

    coordinates {(2009,412156) (2010,414870) (2011,408348) (2012,408184)};

addplot [rounded corners=8pt,fill=red!60!black]  

    coordinates {(2009,395972) (2010,398449) (2011,393007) (2012,388950)};

legend{Men,Women}

end{axis}

end{tikzpicture}

end{document}