The Process of Urbanisation in Pakistan, 1951-81

In: The Pakistan development review: PDR, Band 37, Heft 4II, S. 507-522

Abstract

The current level of urbanisation in Pakistan, approximately
33 percent in 1998, is not high by global standards.1 But it is commonly
linked with unemployment, underemployment, shortage of housing,
transport and other infrastructure like water supply and sewerage.
Compared to other areas of population dynamics, such as fertility and
mortality, studies in the field of urbanisation and internal migration
in Pakistan are rather limited. During the last three decades hardly
half a dozen studies could be added in the field of urbanisation. These
studies are primarily based on data generated by the different
censuses.2 After the 1979 Population Labour Force and Migration (PLM)
Survey, no nationally representative survey addressing the issue of
urbanisation and internal migration could be carried out. Even regional
studies could not be conducted during the last two decades.