The graph below gives information about the percentage of the population in four Asian countries living in cities from 1970 to 2020, with predictions for 2030 and 2040. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.

The line graph displays how many inhabitants of four Asian countries stayed in cities between 1970 and 2020 and how those will be in 2030 and 2040.

Overall

, from all of the four countries, the biggest number of inhabitants living in the cities was inhabitants in

Malaysia

while

that of

Thailand

was the least. Meanwhile, the data predicts that more people are going to stay in the metropolis in both 2030 and 2040.

To begin

with, almost in all of the years given, there was a constant increase in the

proportion

of

Malaysia

from exactly 30% in 1970 to approximately 75% in 2020. In comparison,

although

at the beginning of the year, the

proportion

of the Philippines experienced a slightly similar number to that of

Malaysia

at 32%, it

then

fluctuated in the following years until reached around 42%.

On the other hand

, the residents of Indonesia which gained the smallest

proportion

at the start of the period at about 14%, kept on rising along the period and achieved nearly above 50%

proportion

in 2020. The

last

country,

Thailand

, had a contribution of just under 20% in 1970 before rising constantly to about 30% in 2020. In terms of forecasts for 2030 and 2040, the percentage of

Malaysia

, Indonesia, Philippines, and

Thailand

will have growth to around 80%, 60%, 53%, and 45% respectively.

Furthermore

,

whereas

all of the country's contributions going up in the future, the greatest increase will be the residents of

Thailand

by 15%.