As cited in the latest Economic Survey 2023-24, it is expected that by 2030, more than 40 percent of India's population will live in urban areas. This estimation has been made on the basis of studies and reports of NITI Aayog.

Further, so far as the information on migration is concerned, in the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) conducted by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI) during July 2020 – June 2021, information has been collected on migration particulars of the household members. The percentage of internal migrants by four types of rural-urban migration streams (i.e rural areas to rural areas, rural areas to urban areas, urban areas to rural areas and urban areas to urban areas) is given in the table as follows:

All India	Rural to rural	Urban to rural	Rural to urban	Urban to urban	all
Person	55.0	10.2	18.9	15.9	100.0

This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), Shri Rao Inderjit Singh in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.

Urbanisation projection signals population shift to cities; migration stream data underline rural to rural and rural to urban mobility patterns. Projected urbanisation in the Economic Survey 2023-24 forecasts that by 2030 over forty percent of the population will be urban, informing urban planning needs. PLFS migration data (July 2020-June 2021) quantifies internal movement across four streams, showing a majority in rural to rural flows with significant rural to urban and urban to urban shares; these proportions, provided in a parliamentary reply, supply the statistical basis for assessing rural-urban transition and policy calibration.