Abstract: | This paper delineates the correlates of the interregional shifts of population in Nigeria between 1952 and 1963. While the annual growth rate as a whole is placed at 2.7 per cent, the rate of urban growth has been slightly over 6 per cent per year. The main factor of this urban growth was rural-urban migration: every year about one-half per cent of the rural population went to the towns. But in urban centers, labor is abundant but jobs are limited. The response to this problem has provoked Nigeria to initiate varieties of resettlement schemes in rural agricultural areas. To date, the success has been too spotty for a final assessment. Sections: Hypothese - Methodology - Analysis of the data - Migration and employment - Coclusions. Tables, ref. |