The graph depicts the amount of population in four countries from Asia living in urban areas between 1970 and 2020, with speculations for 2030 and 2040.
Overall, the population number rose and will keep increasing in the future. Despite Indonesia having initially the fewest urban population, it increased drastically placing it in second place in the final 3 decades.
Although Malaysia had about 30% of its population living in cities in 1970, it has significantly started soaring from 1990 and ended up having an amount of approximately 75%, being speculated to grow by 10% more by the next two decades (2030 and 2040). Philippines, being ranked first by urban population in 1970 with above 30%, saw a sharp change in 1990. After climbing to about 50% of people living in cities, it then gradually decreased till 2020 with almost 10%. However, from 2020 it started slightly going up and it is predicted to be at somewhat above 50% in 2040.
In 1970, Thailand had about 18% of urban population. Despite it plateauing from 1990 till 2020 at about 30%, it is speculated that the number will increase by approximately 15% in the next two decades. Even though Indonesia was ranked in 1970 with the least locals living in cities at somewhat 15%, it kept growing its amount decade by decade reaching an amount of 50% in 2020. It is predicted that it will keep increasing in 2040 by about 10%.