The bar chart below gives information about the percentage of the population living in urban areas in different parts of the world.

The given bar graph gives data on the number of

people

living in urban

areas

in

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different continents of the

world

. The data are given for three different years, i.e. 1950, 2007 and projected for the year 2030. As is presented from the given data,

initially

in 1950, on

an

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average 29%

people

of

the

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world

lived in the urban area.

In

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this

year, the highest

percentage

of the

population

lived

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living

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in urban

areas

were

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in North America which was 64%. In Africa and Asia, these percentages were

lowest

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(15 and 17

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respectively). Half of the Europeans lived in urban

areas

while

this

percentage

was 42% in Latin America. After 57 years in 2007, the

percentage

of urban area

population

reached

to

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49% in the

world

. North America again had the highest

percentage

of the

population

who lived in urban

areas

. The lowest

percentage

was in Africa (37%) and in other continents, the percentages were around 40 to 70. The

percentage

of the

population

lived

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in urban

areas

increased significantly in 2007 compared to the percentages

of

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1950. It is projected that 60% of the

world

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population

would live in urban

areas

in the year 2030.

This

percentage

would be more than 80 in both of the American continents. In Europe,

this

would increase to 78 and both in Asia and Africa around half of their

population

would live in urban

areas

. In summary, the

percentage

of

people

lived

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in urban

areas

increased over time and more and more

people

would be living in urban

areas

over time.