Volume 65 | Issue 6 | Year 2019 | Article Id. IJMTT-V65I6P514 | DOI : https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V65I6P514
Censuses and projections for population are the most important activities for a country to provide current and future population sizes needed by government, policy makers and planners of a country. Population censuses were taken at least every 10 years period and based on the data and information; population projection has been done yearly to perform the development of the country in various sectors. Kayah State is Myanmar's smallest state by both geographical area and population. In this paper, the population of Kayah State is projected for the first half of 21st century using two mathematical models. The exponential growth model and logistic growth model are used to forecast the population from 2020 to 2050 based on the data and information of the 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census and CEIC (Census and Economic Information Center) data. The accuracies of the projected results of two models are compared using results from CEIC data by Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). The objective of this paper is to project the population of Kayah State using two mathematical models to the end of the first half of 21st century to support the development of State.
[1] (2017) Kayah State website. [Online]. Available: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayah_State.
[2] H.E Khin Yi, “The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census Report Vol.3 B”, Kayah State, Department of Population,
Ministry of Immigration and Population, May 2015.
[3] Augustus Wali, “Mathematical Modelling of Rwanda‟s Population Growth”.Applied Mathematical Sciences, vol. 5, 2011, no. 53,
2617 – 2628.
[4] Wu Haijian, Xing Xiao, “Gray Markov Using on Population Forecast”, International Journal of Mathematics Trends andTechnology
(IJMTT) – Vol. 49 Number 5 September 2017.
[5] Myamar Population: Estimate: Kayah State, CEICdata.com@2017. Copyright All Right Reserved. [Online] Available:
www.ceicdata.com/en/myanmar/population-estimation-2014-population-census-by-state/population-estimate-kayah-state/amp
[6] Vikas Kumar, Shankar Lal, “Mathematical Modeling of India‟s Population Growth”, Aryabhatta Journal of Mathematics and
InformaticsVol.08 Issue-02, Dec 2016.
[7] Jacob Siegel and David Swanson, “Population Projections”, San Diego: Elsevier Academic Press, 2004.
[8] Mean Absolute Percentage Error Website.[Online].Available: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_absolute_percentage_error.
[9] Carrying Capacity website. [Online] Available: https:// populationmatters.org/wp-ontent/uploads/D20Carryingcapacity.pdf
[10] Training Indicator for Carrying Capacity Website.
[Online].Available:http://www.sustainablemeasures.com/Training/Indicators/CarryCap.html
[11] World Bank‟s Population Projection for Myanmar, Worldometers Website. [Online].available: https://data.worldbank.org/country/
myanmar
[12] Erwin Kreyszig, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, 10th edition, Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp-2-8.
HtayHtay Mar, San San Maw, Lin Lin Naing, "Mathematical Modelling of Projection for Population in Kayah State," International Journal of Mathematics Trends and Technology (IJMTT), vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 84-91, 2019. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/22315373/IJMTT-V65I6P514