Nepal
65 figures for Nepal, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Nepal compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $1,536 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $6,175 (2025)
- Economic growth +4.4% (2025)
- Unemployment 10.5% (2025)
- Inflation +4.7% (2024)
- Exports 7.6% (2024)
- Income per person $4,727 (2023)
- Household wealth 57.4 (2019)
- Poorer households 37.0% (2019)
- Wealth inequality 0.18 (2019)
- Women in paid work 58.6% (2016)
People
- Population 29.7 million (2023)
- Population growth −0.11% (2025)
- Births per woman 1.96 (2024)
- Typical age 24.7 (2023)
- Living in cities 67.0% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.622 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.858 (2023)
- People per household 4.3 (2019)
- People over 65 7.1% (2019)
- Children under 15 29.6% (2019)
- Women’s age at first marriage 18.4 (2019)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 20.2 (2019)
Health
- Life expectancy 70.4 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 25.1 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 142 (2023)
- Health spending per person $84 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 97% (2024)
- Overweight adults 30.9% (2022)
- Stunted children 31.6% (2019)
- Overweight children 3.3% (2019)
- Homes with piped water 38.7% (2019)
- Homes with a flush toilet 72.0% (2019)
Education
- Years of schooling 4.5 (2023)
- Expected years in school 13.8 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 89.9% (2023)
- Education spending 4.1% (2022)
- Teens in school 75.2% (2019)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.633 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 18.8 million (2024)
- Forest cover 41.6% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 40.7 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 73.7% (2021)
- Average temperature 13.7 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 443 (2023)
- Access to electricity 97.9% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 100.0% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 99.9% (2019)
Technology
- Internet users 46.3% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 121.1 (2022)
- Home broadband 8.5 (2022)
- Homes with internet 51.1% (2019)
- Homes with a mobile phone 94.8% (2019)
Food and farming
- Hunger 5.3% (2023)
- Cereal yield 3,344 (2023)
- Farmland 26.1% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 22.9% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.66 (2025)
- Human rights 0.74 (2025)
- Control of corruption −0.77 (2025)
- Women in parliament 33.1% (2024)
- Military spending 1.0% (2024)
- Clean government 39.2 (2022)