NEW YORK — A UN policy brief has reported
a significant decrease in
Jordan's rural population, declining from 48 percent
to less than eight percent between 1960 and 2022, Al-Ghad reported.
اضافة اعلان
The brief, titled ‘Migration and Climate
Change in the Arab Region’ and issued by the
UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA), highlighted that the decrease in rural population is
attributed to the impacts of climate change such as water scarcity, recurrent
droughts, and desertification, coupled with the lack of rural economic
opportunities.
The UN indicators align with findings
from the Fourth National Communication report, prepared by the
Ministry of Environment with support from the UN Development Program. This report revealed
that individuals living in rural areas are among the first to suffer from the
depletion of natural resources and are disproportionately affected by the
crisis compared to other segments of the population.
Furthermore, the report provided an
analysis of internal
migration rates, highlighting that Aqaba recorded the
highest rates of both internal and external migration at 7.6 percent and 19.9
percent, respectively. Additionally, based on current and previous places of
residence, Tafilah recorded the highest migration rate at 4.2 percent, while
the overall migration rate over a lifetime was 10.1 percent.
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