Iranian official Census suggests that with passing of time the share of rural population in Iran is reduced and many villages are depopulated. Statistics also are represented the intensive migration of rural population to cities over the past half century. All of these indicate unsuitable conditions for residency and population attraction in villages of Iran.

 

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Problem of desertion of villages and emptying from villagers is an important issue on rural difficulties. This problem has several reasons that most important of them are shortage of facilities and lack of access to several required services. This has caused and considered as undesirable events in the mind of majority of people. In Iran after the Land Reforms period, there was a vast changes appeared in the villager's life and led to extensive rural migration. But after passage of the several decades, these effects faded or vanished and this has been replaced with recession in economy and rural livelihood.

  In this article based on field study and after introduce of socio- economy characteristics of study population, the reasons for migration from Bandar Anzali rural areas is reviewed.

  This paper concluded that presently villages of Bandar Anzali are faced with disequilibrium between population and available natural resources that is resulted to create a large number of manpower with lacke of livelihood through agriculture. Field studies shows that the high percentage of emigration from rural areas in Bandar Anzali was in course of need to access to job for livelihood which is due to reduction in natural resources and low level of technology to promote the quality of production level .