SIMULATION STUDIES OF POPULATION GROWTH WITH DIFFERENT CONTROL MEASURES

Abstract

In developing, countries population growth is causing a lot of undesirable problems M During recent years long term population policy has become the, matter of great Interest due to population explosion. This work is an attempt to simulate the effect of various control 'efforts on population growth in Indian context, The study is done by considering arbitrary uniform reduction in birth rates increase in minimum age of marriage & family planning efforts. The results ,show that minimum age of marriage effects the population owth in initial part of the time horizon while family planning efforts effect the population in later years, Population study upto year 2041 in a interval size of years has been considered & the population n evels by considering g above various efforts have been simulated. Zn this work only female population have been considered by assuming it as 48% of the total population* The input data have been taken from the Prelim Census estimate or India 1981k