The charts below show the growth in the population in some of the world’s largest cities as well as the population distribution in urban and rural areas. Summarize the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar graph and the table show the

population

growth in

five

metropolitan

cities

in the world. The bar graph shows the data from the year 1970 to 2010,

whereas

, the table provides the data from 1950 and 2010.

Finally

, the line chart compares urban and rural world populations from 1980 to 2010. It can be seen from both the bar graph and the table that Tokyo had a rapid jump in

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population

over the three decades (1970 to 2010), surpassing New York's

population

which took first place in the top

five

biggest

cities

' populations in 1950. Bombay's people

also

had a dramatic increase by

five

times from 1970 to 2010, replacing London as the

second

highest

population

. Following that, Jakarta's

population

also

had a steep rise and was making it into the top

five

of the biggest

cities

in 2010,

along with

Tokyo, Bombay, Lagos, and Shanghai. The line chart shows that the figure of people living in urban areas is increasing gradually and the rural community is declining slightly. From 2004, it can be seen there was an overlap between the figures for urban and rural populations.

This

also

notes the beginning of the growth and decline in the total of people living in the downtown and villages, respectively. It is expected that the growth of the

population

in

cities

will rise even

further

over time.