The provided graph illustrates a comprehensive overview of population distribution of urban and rural area across seven countries for the year 2017.
Overall, different patterns are shown in seven distinct countries, while Japan dominates the position as a country with the largest percentage of urban residents and the smallest portion of rural inhabitants.
To commence, Japan has the highest number of urban population distribution, at 93.7%, complementing with 6.3% of rural residents. Brazil follows as the nation with the second highest urban portion, at 86.8%, with 13.2% of people living in rural area. While followed closely by the United States and Germany, both exhibiting notable urban population at 82.3% and 75.9%, respectively, these two countries have considerably larger ruraly population, at 17.7% and 24.1%, respectively. However, a smaller gap is seen in the distribution pattern of China, with 58.5% of urban percantage and 41.5% of rural portion.
Conversely, India exhibits a totally different feature, with 66.9% of residents living in rural districts, which is more than double that of percentage of urban population, at 33.1%. What’s more, Nigeria also shows the similar pattern, with 47.6% of people staying in city centre, which is slightly lower than that of rural residents, at 52.4%.