Department of Geography & GIS
Geographical analysis
Year: 2020, Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 16-18
Original Article
R Sowmya1, H Nagaraj2
1Research Fellow (UGC-RGNF), DOS in Geography, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysuru, 570006
2Professor, DOS in Geography, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysuru, 570006
Received Date:19 September 2020, Accepted Date:21 November 2020
Population growth is varies from one region to another. Population size will vary from rural to urban area. Both regions are having difference in the form of their population size, distribution, density and composition. In this present research article has made an attempt to examine the pattern of rural population growth in Mysore district from 1961 to 2011. For this research six decades population data has been taken for analyze the pattern of rural population growth in Mysore district and also comparison the trends between the taluks. Rural area’s population is less than the urban area. In these six decades trend of rural population was gradually decreasing in the district, but it varies from one taluk to another. Rural people are more migrated to urban areas for different purpose such as Education, Job, Health treatments and other reasons. Some less development areas people are migrated towards urban area for hope getting to better standard of living. Pull and push factors are more influenced in the population growth.
Keywords: Population Growth; Population size; Pull and push factors
© 2020 Sowmya & Nagaraj. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Published By Bangalore University, Bengaluru, Karnataka
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