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Unprecedented Growth in Population of New Towns

On average, a total of 36,000 were added to the population of new towns’ residents annually from the year ending March 1997 to March 2017, but in the fiscal 2019-20, the average growth in population of the new town surged to 90,000
Unprecedented Growth in Population of New Towns
Unprecedented Growth in Population of New Towns

Housing inflation in Iranian metropolises has resulted in an unprecedented rate of suburbanization over the past couple of years. 
A total of 90,000 people moved to new towns in the last Iranian year (March 2019-20), which raised their total population by over one million. 
Last year’s population shift from central urban areas into new towns was 2.2 times higher than the annual average of the past two decades. 
Notably, the number of residents in new towns was as low as 58,000 in the year ending March 1997. 
On average, a total of 36,000 were added to the number of new towns’ residents annually from the year ending March 1997 to March 2017. The figure increased to 40,000 between the fiscal 1996-97 and 2018-19, but last year, the average growth in the population of the new town surged by 90,000. 
Such a one-year population growth in new towns was also recorded for the Iranian year ending March 2014. New satellite towns then saw the number of residents rise by 101,000, thanks to the completion of a phase of the so-called "Mehr Housing Project".

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