Population control under various family planning schemes in Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

Abstract Contraceptive policies have been derived to achieve desired reductions in the growth rate and also applied to the data of Uttar Pradesh, India, for illustration. Using the Lotka integral equation for stable population, expressions for the proportion of contraceptive users at different ages have been obtained. In order to reduce the present annual growth rate from 0.036 to 0.020, it is imperative that there will be 42% contraceptive users at age 20, assuming that 40% of them will discontinue at age 25 and 30% will resume the contraceptive use at age 30. Assuming furthermore that 75% of females start using contraceptives at the age of 23 years, 50% of the remaining females start using them at the age of 28 years, and the rest of the females start using them at the age of 32 years, if we set the minimum age at marriage at 20 years, a reduction of 0.019 in the growth rate will be obtained. This study describes how the level of contraceptive use at different age groups of females has helped reduce the growth rate in the state of Uttar Pradesh. It also promotes delayed marriage in the region.