Band 6+: The bar chart below describes some changes about the percentage of people were born in Australia and who were born outside Australia living in urban, rural and town between 1995 and 2010. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

From the chart below, it is cleary showing that from 1995 to 2010, there is a trend of people both inside and outside Australia migrating out of towns and rural areas and immigrating into cities. Meanwhile, there is a larger magnitude of urbanization outside Australia.

In 1995, there is a rather average spread of people living in three different catagories of areas in Australia. The rates of people living in cities, towns and rural areas are around 50%, 20% and 30% respectively, while the percentages are more polorized outside Australia, which are 60%, 10% and 40% respectively.

In 2010, both regions showed a significant decrease in the population in rural areas and increase in cities. In Australia, the percentage of city population increased almost one third from 50% to 65%, which is relatively the same comparing to the regions outside Australia, of which the city population jumped from 60% to 80% by 30%. The percentage of town population in both areas remained the same around 10% and decreased slightly by no more than 5%. Both percentages of rural areas population inside and outside Australia saw a huge decrease from 30% to 15% and 40% to 5% respectively.