Type | Journal Article - International Journal of Statistics and Analysis. |
Title | Application of the Birth-Death Processes for Generating the Population Estimates |
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URL | https://ines.ac.rw/images/IJSA 2015.pdf |
Abstract | The population deterministic model agrees with the expected value of the general solution of the probability generating function of the birth-death process as it has been developed successfully to model the behavior of stochastic populations. These models describe population sizes and their dynamics through the birth-death formulation assuming the net migration is zero. A representation for the partial differential difference equation and the probability generating function of a birth-death process with a polynomial transition rates are derived and can be used for transitional probabilities of the population. The form of the mean or the expected value derived for constant birth and death parameters was applied to the real data of the population of Rwanda to generate the backward and onwards estimates. With the methods employed, it has been shown that the first occupants of the current sized Rwanda started in the 15th century with assumption of a constant population growth rate of 3% and applied to the referenced population size reported in 1950 with another assumption that, there was no catastrophic event with intension to extinguish the population. The analysis is extended to include the onward estimates and the effect of Genocide against Tutsi in 1994 was also highlighted to show the level of perturbation on the population growth. With Genocide effect, the population of Rwanda presented a decline rate of almost 0.4% (or population growth rate =-0.4%) in the beginning of 1995 by which the death rate reached a high pick of 363/1000 ( ? 4/10) and birth rate reduced considerably and reached to 6/1000 populations. |
» | Rwanda - Recensement Général de la Population et de l'Habitat 1991 |