City Growth : bar chart

The graph shows the growth of population in many major cities in the years 1950-2015.

London is the only city in which the population decreased and it decreased from 8m in 1950 to 7m in 2000 and then it is forecast to stay the same till 2015. NY had the steadiest growth and there was not such a big difference between the years 1950 and 2015. Other cities' population increased rapidly but Bombay had the biggest growth in its population, from about 3M in 1950 to about 27M in 2015. The other cities also will have a dramatic growth like Lagos in Nigeria; the population increases from less than 1M in 1950 to about 23M in 2015, and in Cairo the population growth will be 18M by 2015 from just 2.5M approximately in 1950. In Mexico the population increases from 3M in the 1950’s to about 19M in 2015. Then Tokyo which had about 7M in 1950 and from 2000 the population growth will stay the same till 2015; 27M. Next Shanghai and Sao Paolo have a rapid increase in their population.

In conclusion London is the only city whose population decreased. The biggest growth of population was in Bombay although the other cities' population had rapid increases.

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