Urban-to-Rural Migration Rises

Migration from cities to rural areas outweighed rural-to-urban migration from the Iranian years ending March 2018 to March 2020. 
According to Alireza Zahedian, the head of the Centre of Statistics of the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, the number of people moving from cities to rural areas stood at 49,853 in the year ending March 2018, 46,788 in the year ending March 2019 and 50,216 in the year ending March 2020. 
“Urban-to-rural migration accounted for 65.4% of total migration in the year ending March 2020,” he was quoted as saying by Mehr News Agency.