As several national reports emphasized, urban to urban and rural to rural migration are increasing.

Furthermore, other forms of internal population movements, such as rural to rural and urban to urban migration, are also increasing in some parts of the world.

Rural urban migration. Over the past 30 years, the urban share of the Chinese population has risen from 20 to 46 .

In India and Malaysia as well, rural to rural migration is the most significant type of internal migration.

Rural to urban migration also left millions of people living in terrible conditions without basic services.

Urban rural terms of trade

City dwellers have a higher death rate than country people do.

Suicide rates for rural residents are higher than urban.

40. Participants expressed the need to develop industrial linkages with rural economies, thereby improving income distribution and reducing rural urban migration.

Increased rural to urban migration and the increase in the number of different ethnic groups that occupy the same urban space often result in social tension and conflicts.

This points to augmentation of urban population and reduction of rural population.

However, whereas the rural population of the more developed regions is declining, that of the less developed regions continues to increase despite rural urban migration.

An increasing trend of rural to urban migration has been observed at the same time, which is typically labour dominant and has produced an outflow of young, mostly male, workers to the urban centres.

The proportion of use differs in rural and urban areas, amounting to 53.9 per cent in the latter and 38.3 per cent in the former.

Owing to the lack of facilities in rural areas, urban migration had been on the increase.

That caused rising inequality between the urban privileged and the rural poor.

Census results over the decades indicate an urban rural migration trend, more significant in the most urbanized provinces of the country (Copperbelt, Lusaka, Southern and Central).

In most developing countries, where urban dwellers have better access to education and health services than do rural inhabitants, rural urban migration is a means of improving the access of migrants to such services and of improving their livelihoods.

Addressing the needs of indigenous youth will also help to achieve Millennium Development Goal 3 and address pressures and problems arising from mass rural to urban migration.

Progress in France brought a fairly recent migration from country to town.

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION, URBANIZATION AND INTERNAL MIGRATION 72. Migration and urbanization are intrinsic parts of the development process. Although rural rural and urban urban migration are the dominant forms of spatial mobility in many countries, attention has mostly been focused on rural urban flows because of their contribution to urban population growth.

The social indicators of the rural population generally lag behind those of the urban population.

That situation had changed in the past two decades as a result of heavy rural to urban migration, particularly by young people.

Urban development in Thailand is of particular importance in light of the massive rural to urban migration occurring in Thailand.

363. The national report of the United States of America describes the urban to urban migration trend, one that has affected the population distribution of every part of the country.

Kabul province is the only province in the country with a larger urban than rural population.

Having recognized the strong links between urban and rural poverty the Task Force concluded that its mandate should remain firmly anchored in rural development and rural poverty, but could perhaps be enlarged to cover the linkages between rural and urban poverty as well.

In the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina the rural urban ratio stands at 16 to 15 per cent.

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Furthermore, other forms of internal population movements, such as rural to rural and urban to urban migration, are also increasing in some parts of the world.

The economic activity rates for females in rural areas are higher than in urban areas owing to the fact that women's employment is more concentrated in rural areas than in urban areas

The perceived employment opportunities in urban centres induces many of the rural underemployed and unemployed to migrate.

In addition, work will continue on the study of levels and trends of mortality and, to the extent that data from the 1990 round of censuses becomes available, the estimation of rural urban migration during the 1980s will be carried out.

Since 2000, annual rural to urban migration has been running consistently at 15 20 million people.

In other words, there is a difference between urban and rural population, particularly from the aspect of implementation of equal rights for both genders.

Addressing the inequities and imbalances in development opportunities between rural and urban areas has to be given priority in order to curb the problem of rural to urban immigration.

Improving overall living and employment conditions in rural areas, in part to reduce rural urban migration.

Schools had recently been opened in the suburbs to accommodate the children of internal, country to city migration.

In the light of those conditions, it is evident that the limited labour market has no place for urban or rural youth.

Some 40 of five year olds and 60 of six year olds are in the compulsory pre school program, and there are 9.6 times more urban children in pre schools than rural children.

31. The recent surge in urbanization has dramatically altered the needs of the cities and has brought to the forefront the need to investigate systematically the process of migrant adjustment in cities.

(d) High risk groups such as indigenous people the elderly the unemployed and the underemployed refugees, asylum seekers and displaced persons street children rural to urban migrants urban poor (para. 50)

One of them was poverty, which affected women in particular, in both rural and urban areas.

The rural population of Pakistan does not at present have the same facilities and amenities in the fields of education, health, employment etc. as its urban counterpart.

In terms of major indicators (see below) the rural population suffers from a lack of services of the quality and possibly quantity available to the urban population.