Governments should spend more money on railways rather than roads. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

The bar graph compares the

population

in five metropolitan areas during 1970 and 2010 while the table outlines the top five cities with the highest

population

.

Finally

, the line graph compares urban and rural

population

distribution from 1980 to 2010. Generally speaking, the

population

growth in Bombay and Jakarta was faster than that of other cities and Tokyo had the highest residents in 2010.

Moreover

, a higher number of people started living in urban areas than in rural areas after 2005. According to the bar graph, more than 15

million

people lived in Tokyo in 1970 and that was higher than that of New York and Shanghai.

Population

in Bombay was one-

third

than that of Tokyo and Jakarta had only 2.5

million

residents, the least among the five cities. The

population

in Tokyo increased to 27.6

million

in 2010 and

this

was the city with the highest

population

.

However

,

population

growth in Bombay and Jakarta, almost 5.5 times, was higher than any other city listed. The table data shows that New York was the most populous city in the world in 1950 with exactly 12.5

million

people. London and Tokyo stood at the

second

and

third

position in

this

list while Moscow with its 5.3

million

people w

as

Suggestion

were

in 5th position. In 2010, Tokyo topped the rank followed by Bombay and Lagos.

Finally

, globally 3 billion people lived in rural areas in 1980 while less than 2 billion in cities. In 2010, the number of city-living-residents u

psurged

to over 4 b

illion while

Accept comma addition

billion, while

it was slightly over 3 in villages