The table gives data about the actual and predicted residents in three different urban cities-Shanghai, Jakarta and Sao Paulo between 1990 and 2000.
Overall, it can be seen that SaoPaulo and Jakarta exhibited a general upward trajectory, while Shanghai showed a slight downward trend. Notably, the prediction of populace among three cities in 1990 and 2000 indicated a more distant gap than it was expected, and the number of people in Sao Paulo was by far the highest figure comparing three cities.
In 1990, Sao Paulo started the tables as the dominant figure with 15 million people, followed closely by Shanghai with 13.5 million. Meanwhile, Jakarta distributed the least population among three cities with 9.5 million.
With regard to the year 2000, there was a long distance between actual and predicted figures among three cities’ population and all were lower than estimated. In Jakarta, the predicted population stood at 14 million, while that of actuality was only 11.5 million. In a similar way, the number of people in Sao Paulo increased slightly to 18 million in reality, but still less than 6 million people as predicted. By contrast, unlike the prediction of residents in Shanghai, the actual figure for population in this city dropped marginally to less than 1 million, at 12.5 million, but still ranking as the second leading figure among three cities.