Análisis descriptivo de la urbanización y migración interna en Ecuador a partir de censos poblacionales de los años 1990, 2001 y 2010

Abstract

The present research shows a descriptive analysis of the trend of internal migratory flows of Ecuador in three census periods 1990, 2001 and 2010, and how these have contributed to the urbanization patterns of the different provinces, thus changing the population distribution of the country. For its development, migration matrices are used to obtain indicators such as immigration rate, migration rate, urban population, relative importance of immigration on the urban population, among others, using CEPAL methodology (2010), and data of the INEC of the three census years. The main results show that the migratory patterns in Ecuador have not varied significantly, maintaining the provinces of Pichincha, Guayas and Manabí as the main migratory destinations. These migratory flows are not highly related to the growth of the urban population in the provinces, so that there is even a slow growth of urbanization in the last two census periods, high levels of migration are distributed throughout the provinces in a homogeneous way increasing the demographic density of some intermediate provinces