(i) Overcrowding and pressure on social amenities
If a country is advanced in infrastructure and basic social amenities, there is no point to classify it as developing. To this point, it is common to see most developing countries having limited social amenities
and infrastructure. This may include schools, roads, places of convenience, pipe borne water among others.
(ii) Low productivity in output and thus low GDP.
As there are more and more people leaving the rural areas which happen to be the fertile grounds of development of any developing country, there becomes a limited number of labour forces in the rural centres.
This goes a long way to reduce the amount of produce that can be produced to feed the
whole nation. The fact that most developing nations rely on agriculture and primary
production for their development means that a reduction in agricultural and other primary
activities means a reduction in the nation output and hence a low gross domestic product
or national income.
(iii) Unemployment in the rural areas.
In the developing world, there are limited job opportunities available, so the influx of people from the rural areas to the urban who are mainly unskilled in profession causes them not fit for the available jobs in the urban which are mainly skilled in nature. Thus there will be a rise in the unemployment and the underemployment rate in the urban areas as well as the rural areas.
(iv) Increase in social vice and the development of slums.
When people move from the rural to the urban areas, they have in mind that they are coming to work and feed their relatives at home. It becomes a new story when their quest for employment becomes an illusion as there is no job to absorb them. To make ends meet, most people who migrate to the rural areas resort to stealing, armed robbery and prostitution.
Since they cannot afford a decent house to buy, they settle in a particular place and build houses made of wood, aluminum slate among others.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on April 23, 2019 at 12:11