The objective of this report is toinform the government’s policies and strategies onurbanization as a driver of economic development, jobcreation, and poverty reduction. Note two examines internalmigration in Rwanda, which is a recent phenomenon andremains fairly limited, with less than 10 percent of thepopulation changing their district of residence in the threeyears between 2011 and 2014. Rural‐to‐urban migration hasincreased slightly as a share of internal migration, andwith internal migration increasing overall, the absolutenumber of people moving from rural to urban areas has grown.The spatial disparities in living standards offer acompelling motivation for people in lagging areas to movecloser to economic density. This note takes a closer look atthe scale and nature of internal migration in Rwanda. Thisnote is organized as follows: section one givesintroduction. Section two presents the scale and pattern ofinternal migration, focusing particularly on rural‐to‐urbanmigration and the secondary cities. Section three sketchesthe characteristics of migrants, focusing on push and pullfactors and disaggregating by type of migration. The finalsection four concludes.
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