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

The line diagram illustrates the percentage of people that live in cities in different countries from the Asian continent between 1970 and 2020 and the future predictions for the following 2 decades.

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, is crystal clear that the trend is upward in every country.

Firstly

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, citizens from Indonesia were the ones that preferred the least living in urban areas back in 1970;

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, the prediction shows that they will become the second in the ranking with 60% of their citizenry moving to bigger places.

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, Thailand went from less than 20 per cent of the population to 30% in 20 years,

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levelled off until 2020, and it is thought that it will keep increasing for the next decades when half of its population will be living in urban areas.

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, the citizenry of Malaysia has rapidly grown in the

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decades and seems it is going to be the country with the highest rate, hitting the peak in 2040 with more than 80% of their citizens choosing that option.

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, in the Philippines, in the first decade, there were no significant changes,

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, for the following it climbed to 50%, followed by a gradual fall until 2010 and it started increasing again reaching more than half of their citizens as the predictions indicate.