Population Growth Projections, 1906-2006, for Economic Development in the Sudan.

This paper will discuss population growth in the Republic of the Sudan and indicate some of the more important economic preconditions and consequences of such growth. A brief introduction explains the basic differences between the nation's nine economic regions; how the population census of 1956 measured populations of political (administrative) divisions; and why, therefore, the census measurements had to be reorganized so that they could measure populations of economic regions. The alternatives open to the planner, by which he can project population back into the past and, more importantly, into the future, are then examined. These alternatives result from the several attempts to incorporate into postulated long-run birth and death rates whatever information is available on the history and anticipated future of those economic and social factors which influence the rates. A final section comments on investment, labor force, and other economic ramifications of the long-run population growth.