Population Projections of India an Alternative Approach

Replacement index J, a measure of the true rate of natural increase has been utilised here to adopt an alternative method of population projection. An attempt has been made to find out a relation between the replacement index J and the population P for India and this relation has been used to forecast future population for India up to 1991. The relation P = 281269.7674 J - 108103.3899 is applicable only for India as the estimates of the constants are based on the Indian data. The above relation should not be used for projecting future population at distant period of time.