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Population:
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28,951,852 (July 2010
est.)
country
comparison to the world:
43 |
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Age structure:
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0-14 years: 35.6%
(male 5,253,150/female 5,056,249)
15-64 years: 60.1%
(male 8,328,202/female 9,074,562)
65 years and over: 4.3%
(male 581,872/female 657,817) (2010 est.)
|
|
|
Median age:
|
|
total: 21.2
years
male: 20.2
years
female: 22.1
years (2010 est.)
|
|
|
Population growth
rate:
|
|
1.419% (2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:
88 |
|
|
Birth rate:
|
|
22.43 births/1,000
population (2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:
80 |
|
|
Death rate:
|
|
6.89 deaths/1,000
population (July 2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:
142 |
|
|
Net migration rate:
|
|
-1.35 migrant(s)/1,000
population (2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:
129 |
|
|
Urbanization:
|
|
urban population: 17%
of total population (2008)
rate of urbanization: 4.9%
annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)
|
|
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Sex ratio:
|
|
at birth: 1.04
male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.04
male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.92
male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.88
male(s)/female
total population: 0.96
male(s)/female (2010 est.)
|
|
|
Infant mortality
rate:
|
|
total: 46
deaths/1,000 live births
country
comparison to the world:
56
male: 45.97
deaths/1,000 live births
female: 46.04
deaths/1,000 live births (2010 est.)
|
|
|
Life expectancy at
birth:
|
|
total population: 65.81
years
country
comparison to the world:
163
male: 64.62
years
female: 67.05
years (2010 est.)
|
|
|
Total fertility
rate:
|
|
2.53 children
born/woman (2010 est.)
country
comparison to the world:
89 |
|
|
HIV/AIDS - adult
prevalence rate:
|
|
0.5% (2007 est.)
country
comparison to the world:
79 |
|
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HIV/AIDS - people
living with HIV/AIDS:
|
|
70,000 (2007 est.)
country
comparison to the world:
56 |
|
|
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
|
|
5,000 (2007 est.)
country
comparison to the world:
45 |
|
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Major infectious
diseases:
|
|
degree of risk: high
food or waterborne
diseases: bacterial
diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne disease: Japanese
encephalitis, malaria, and dengue fever (2009)
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Nationality:
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noun: Nepalese
(singular and plural)
adjective: Nepalese
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Ethnic groups:
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Chhettri 15.5%,
Brahman-Hill 12.5%, Magar 7%, Tharu 6.6%, Tamang
5.5%, Newar 5.4%, Muslim 4.2%, Kami 3.9%, Yadav
3.9%, other 32.7%, unspecified 2.8% (2001 census)
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Nepal
(pronounced /nəˈpal/
nə-PAHL,
/-pal/
-PAWL; Nepali: नेपाल
[neˈpal]
(help·info)),
officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal,
is a himalayan country in South Asia and, as of 2010, the
world's most recent nation to become a republic. It is
bordered to the north by the People's Republic of China,
and to the south, east, and west by the Republic of India.
With an area of 147,181 square kilometres (56,827 sq mi)
and a population of approximately 30 million, Nepal is the
world's 93rd largest country by land mass and the 41st
most populous country. Kathmandu is the nation's capital
and the country's largest metropolitan city.
Nepal is a country of highly diverse
and rich geography, culture, and religions. The
mountainous north has eight of the world's ten highest
mountains, including the highest, Sagarmatha, known in
English as Mount Everest. The fertile and humid south is
heavily urbanized. It contains over 240 peaks more than
20,000 ft (6,096 m) above sea level.
By some measures, Hinduism is
practised by a larger majority of people in Nepal than in
any other nation. Buddhism, though a minority faith in the
country, is linked historically with Nepal as the
birthplace of the Buddha. About half of the population
live below the international poverty line of US$1.25 a
day.
A monarchy throughout most of its
history, Nepal was ruled by the Shah dynasty of kings from
1768, when Prithvi Narayan Shah unified its many small
kingdoms. In 2006, however, a decade-long People's
Revolution by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) along
with several weeks of mass protests by all major political
parties of Nepal culminated in a peace accord, and the
ensuing elections for the constituent assembly voted
overwhelmingly in favor of the abdication of the last
Nepali monarch Gyanendra Shah and the establishment of a
federal democratic republic in May 28, 2008. The first
President of Nepal, Ram Baran Yadav, was sworn in on 23
July 2008.
From
Wikipedia
The Nepalese are
descendants of three major migrations from India, Tibet,
and North Burma and Yunnan via Assam.
Among the earliest
inhabitants were the Kirat of east mid-region, Newar of
the Kathmandu Valley and aboriginal Tharu in the southern
Terai region. The ancestors of the Brahman and Chetri
caste groups came from India's present Kumaon, Garhwal and
Kashmir regions, while other ethnic groups trace their
origins to North Burma and Yunnan and Tibet, e.g. the
Gurung and Magar in the west, Rai and Limbu in the east
(from Yunnan and north Burma via Assam), and Sherpa and
Bhutia in the north (from Tibet).
In the Terai, a part of the
Ganges Basin with 20% of the land, much of the population
is physically and culturally similar to the Indo-Aryans of
northern India. Indo-Aryan and East Asian looking mixed
people live in the hill region. Indo-Aryan ancestry has
been a source of prestige in Nepal for centuries, and the
ruling families have been of Indo-Aryan and Hindu
background. The mountainous highlands are sparsely
populated. Kathmandu Valley, in the middle hill region,
constitutes a small fraction of the nation's area but is
the most densely populated, with almost 5% of the
population.
Nepal is a multilingual
society. These data are largely derived from Nepal's 2001
census results published in the Nepal Population Report
2002.
According to the World
Refugee Survey 2008, published by the U.S. Committee
for Refugees and Immigrants, Nepal hosted a population of
refugees and asylum seekers in 2007 numbering
approximately 130,000. Of this population, approximately
109,200 persons were from Bhutan and 20,500 from People's
Republic of China.The government of Nepal restricted
Bhutanese refugees to seven camps in the Jhapa and Morang
districts, and refugees were not permitted to work in most
professions. At present, the United States is working
towards resettling more than 60,000 of these refugees in
the US.
Languages Spoken in
Nepal.
Population
Structure
| Data |
Size |
| Population |
28,676,547 (2005) |
| Growth Rate |
2.2% |
| Population below 14
Years old |
39% |
| Population of age 15
to 64 |
57.3% |
| Population above 65 |
3.7% |
| The median age
(Average) |
20.07 |
| The median age
(Male) |
19.91 |
| The median age
(Females) |
20.24 |
| Ratio (Male:Female) |
1, 000:1,060 |
| Life expectancy
(Average) |
59.8 Years |
| Life expectancy
(Male) |
60.9 |
| Life expectancy
(Female) |
59.5 |
| Literacy Rate
(Average) |
53.74% |
| Literacy Rate (Male) |
68.51% |
| Literacy Rate
(Female) |
42.49% |
Despite the migration of a
significant section of the population to the southern
plains or terai in recent years, the majority of the
population still lives in the central highlands. The
northern mountains are sparsely populated.
Kathmandu, with a
population of around 800,000 (metropolitan area: 1.5
million), is the largest city in the country.
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