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Migration Patterns in Nigeria: A Multivariate Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 May 2014

James A. McCain
James A. McCain*
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Department of Political Science, Kent State UniversityKent, Ohio
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The purpose of this paper is to attempt to delineate the correlates of the interregional shifts of population in Nigeria between 1952 and 1963. The population of Nigeria, according to the census of 1963, was placed at 55 million people. While the annual growth rate for Nigeria as a whole is placed at 2.7 per cent, the rate of urban growth has been slightly over 6.0 per cent per year (U.N. 1970, p. 57). Of this 6 per cent growth rate in the urban population, only 2 per cent can be attributed to natural growth processes (that is, to the excess of births over deaths). The observation made by the Conference on National Reconstruction and Development in Nigeria (1969) seems instructive.

The main factor of urban growth was rural-urban migration which must have been of the order of 200,000-250-000 persons a year. This means that every year about one-half per cent of the rural population went to the towns.

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Research Article
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African Studies Review , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , September 1972 , pp. 209 - 216
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1972

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