🇳🇵Nepal

Kathmandu

Asia

Lower middle income

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Population

29.6M

0.1%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.96

births/woman

Life Expectancy

70.6y

GDP / capita

$1.5K

Pop. Growth

-0.11%

Net Migration

-364.7K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Nepal by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇮🇳India412.2K(89.8%)

−11%

🇧🇹Bhutan26.6K(5.8%)

−65%

🇨🇳

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male14.1MTotal 29.6M15.5MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

2.1

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

Where the Nepal diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Nepal who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇮🇳India663.5K(25.2%)

−16%

🇲🇾Malaysia502.6K(19.1%)

+100%

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia297.6K(11.3%)

+303%

🇶🇦Qatar266.6K(10.1%)

+317%

🇺🇸United States264.3K(10.0%)

+306%

🇦🇺Australia197.5K(7.5%)

+635%

🇯🇵Japan185.6K(7.0%)

+874%

🇧🇩Bangladesh52.6K(2.0%)

+58%

🇰🇷Korea, Rep.43.7K(1.7%)

+249%

🇨🇦Canada29.6K(1.1%)

+280%

🇰🇼Kuwait26.3K(1.0%)

14×

🇦🇪United Arab Emirates26.1K(1.0%)

+50%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024