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

The line graph shows data about the proportion of city dwellers in four Asian countries from 1970 and predicts the rates in 2030 and 2040.

It is clear that

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Malaysia is forecast by far to have the most residents living in cities,

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in 1970, the Philippines was on top of the list.

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, Thailand had and will have the lowest amount throughout the

last

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40 years. In 1970, Philippian citizens made up about 32% of their total population, making them slightly more than Malaysians at 30%.

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, Indonesia, with 14%, was at the bottom of the list.

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, it started to rise and surpassed Thailand in 2000 and the Philippines in 2010, it will remain the second-highest country until the end of the period. Having fluctuated wildly between 1980 and 2010, the Philippian people who lived in the city dipped in 2010 to almost 40% and

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experienced a minor climb of approximately 5% by 2020. It is

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set to increase steadily, reaching almost 50% by 2040. After a slight rise in 1990, the population of city residents of Malaysia increased considerably in the next twenty years and by 2040, it will have reached the highest peak in total at just above 80%.