One in every 240 babies born in the world today is born in Nepal. Nepal has about 550,000 births a year, around 0.4% of all births worldwide.

Births per year
550,000
Share of world births
0.4%
Birth odds
1/240
Life expectancy
71 years
Risk of dying before age 5
2.6%
Income per person, PPP
US$4,900
Children per woman
2.0
Urban population
22%

Life expectancy in Nepal is 71 years, which is 2 years shorter than the world average.

Of every 1,000 babies born here, about 26 do not reach their fifth birthday. The world average is 37 per 1,000.

Income per person is about US$4,900 in purchasing power. That is only 21% of the world average.

On average a woman has 2.0 children in her lifetime. The world average is 2.3.

About 22% of the population lives in cities. A baby born here has roughly a 78% chance of being born in the countryside.

Religious makeup

  • Hinduism81%
  • Buddhism9%
  • Islam5%
  • Folk beliefs3%
  • Christianity2%

Sample names given to people born in this country in the game

Bikash · Suman · Prakash · Sita · Sunita · Anisha

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Values are rounded approximations. Sources: UN World Population Prospects 2024, World Bank WDI, Pew Research Center 2020.