diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index 8d4631879..da92c314b 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ importFrom(scoringRules,dss_sample)
 importFrom(scoringRules,logs_sample)
 importFrom(stats,as.formula)
 importFrom(stats,cor)
+importFrom(stats,density)
 importFrom(stats,mad)
 importFrom(stats,median)
 importFrom(stats,na.omit)
diff --git a/R/plot.R b/R/plot.R
index 392d0119d..8834384d9 100644
--- a/R/plot.R
+++ b/R/plot.R
@@ -977,6 +977,7 @@ plot_pairwise_comparison <- function(comparison_result,
 #' `num_bins`.
 #' @importFrom stats as.formula
 #' @importFrom ggplot2 geom_col
+#' @importFrom stats density
 #' @return vector with the scoring values
 #' @examples
 #' # PIT histogram in vector based format
@@ -1053,7 +1054,7 @@ plot_pit <- function(pit,
         data = pit,
         aes(x = pit_value)
       ) +
-        geom_histogram(aes(y = stat(count) / sum(count)),
+        geom_histogram(aes(y = stat(width * density)),
           breaks = plot_quantiles,
           colour = "grey"
         ) +
@@ -1065,7 +1066,7 @@ plot_pit <- function(pit,
       data = data.frame(x = pit),
       aes(x = x)
     ) +
-      geom_histogram(aes(y = stat(count) / sum(count)),
+      geom_histogram(aes(y = stat(width*density)),
         breaks = plot_quantiles,
         colour = "grey"
       )
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