Nepal's Lowest Population Growth in 80 years

The agency called the growth rate of 0.93 per cent the lowest in eight decades, which is less than the global average of 1.01 per cent in 2020, according to the World Bank

Nepal has a population of nearly 30 million, with the average annual growth rate standing at 0.93 per cent, the lowest in 80 years, the Central Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. There were 29,192,480 people in 2021 in Nepal, marking a rise of 10.18 per cent in the last decade, the bureau said in a preliminary report on the latest national census conducted in November last year.

The agency called the growth rate of 0.93 per cent the lowest in eight decades, which is less than the global average of 1.01 per cent in 2020, according to the World Bank.

"It appears that a rising outward migration of Nepali people for foreign employment and studies abroad has contributed to the slowest annual growth rate of the population in eight decades," Hem Raj Regmi, deputy director-general at the bureau has said.

According to the statistics, females accounted for 51.04 per cent of the total population, and the declining fertility rate of Nepali women may also have contributed to the falling growth in population.

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