In many countries around the world, rural people are moving to cities, so the population in the countryside is decreasing. Do you think this is a positive or negative development?

The past 50 years have seen a dramatic increase in moving people from rural

areas

to

cities

globally.

While

some still hold to the conservative view, in

this

essay I intend to argue that the disadvantages of

this

phenomenon far outweigh its advantages. The reasons for

this

are as follows. First of all, it is an unrefutable fact that abandoning the villages and relocating to the

cities

have put those rural

areas

in a ghostlike and unproductive situation. In accordance with the demographic statistics of Iran published in 2020, more than 800 villages are completely depopulated.

This

has resulted in an exponential drop in agricultural crop production and undermined the economic basis of the country

consequently

. I think it is the responsibility of governments and authorities to keep the balance between urban and rural

areas

’ demographic trends by regulating some incentive policies that encourage individuals to live in the countryside.

Secondly

and even more importantly, though, is the fact that moving rural population to

cities

has led to a skyrocketing rise in urban population. Of course, moving to

cities

would be accompanied by undeniable benefits like easy access to better educational, recreational and treatment facilities for the rural population,

nonetheless

, I would contend that too much concentration of people in urban

areas

has brought with it challenges

such

as unemployment, inflation and other troubles that inhabitants have to struggle with them. By way of conclusion, I once again reaffirm my position that the imbalance of inhabitants in urban and rural

areas

would result in more irreparable damages in the foreseeable future. Perhaps, following the industrialisation era mechanisation in agriculture has fostered

this

issue.