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.

Given is a line graph concerning urban population. It compares the urban population rates in

four

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Asian

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countries

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(namely Philippines Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia) from 1970 to 2020,

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the potential people that would reside in

cities

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in 2030 and 2040. From the information supplied it is apparent that less popular was living in

cities

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in the

four

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Asian

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countries

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in the past. A salient example of

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argument is in 1970 that merely less than a third of all

four

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nations’ citizens were living in

cities

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.

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, it seems that

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had a tendency to become more popular particularly, in the Philippines and Malaysia since, approximately half of their citizens had resided in

cities

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by 1990. With regard to the future, though Malaysia is likely to be the leader in

urbanisation

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at 80 per cent in 2040, those three other nations will experience steady growth at the same time in the future In summary, an upward trend has been

urbanisation

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among

Asian

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countries

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. Negligible was the

urbanisation

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gap among the

four

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Asian

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countries

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at 20 per cent in 1970,

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, it would double in the foreseeable future.