The rate of rural to urban migration has seen a decreasing trend over the past four decades, said a senior official at the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development. “The rate of urban to rural migration has been reported as 15% compared with rural to urban migration which stands at 13% currently,” said Mohammad Saeed Izadi. He also noted that urban to urban migration has increased over the recent years, Iranian Agriculture News Agency ‘IANA’ reported. Right now, Tehran, Isfahan, and Khorasan Razavi provinces are seeing high migration rates while Khuzestan, Kermanshah, and West Azarbaijan provinces have the least migration rates.
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