The table gives information on real and projected numbers for population in millions in Sao Paulo, Jakarta, and Shanghai cities in the years 1990 and 2000.
It is clear that, no city attained the projected approximation of total number of people after a decade.
In 1990, the actual population of Sao Paulo was the highest with15 million and it was predicted that by 2000 the population could rise to 24 million but instead the real figure was 18 million. This was an increase by 3 million but did not get close to the approximated figure. In Jakarta on the same year population was 9.5 million increased to 11.5 million by the year 2000 less by 2.5 million which was the expected figure.
Shanghai was the second highest in population registering 13.5 million in 1990 but over a period of 10years it reduced significantly to12.5 million falling short of the expected rise to 17 million by the year 2000.
