The graph below gives information about the percentage of the population in four Asian coountries living in cities from 1970 to 2020, with predictions for 2030 and 2040

The line graph illustrates the proportion of the population, of four different nations, that lived in

cities

, from 1970 to 2020, and

also

makes the future predictions for 2030 and 2040.

Overall

, since 1970, except

Philippines

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the Philippines

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for all the other three countries, the number of people in urban areas has been growing steadily, and it’s predicted that

this

trend

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continue in the future. On closer examination, of the diagram we observe that, in 1970 just above 10% of the total population of Indonesia and Thailand were staying in

cities

,

however

for Malaysia and the

Philippines

this

figure was close to 30%. The number of individuals,

of

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Philippines

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the Philippines

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and Indonesia, residing in urban areas grew at the almost same rates.

However

, until 1990 the percentage of the nationals who were from

cities

was on

upsurge

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the upsurge

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, after

that

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that,

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there was

drop

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a drop

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in

this

value, in 2010, by almost 5%. Contrastingly, an opposite trend was seen in,

therefore

at the end

of

2022

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2022,

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nearly half of the nation was in

cities

. By 2040, it's assumed that in the

Philippines

less than one-fifth of the public would be from villages or rural areas, in the case of the other 3 nations

this

figure would range from 40% to 60%.