Tag: #demography
Articles tagged with #demography

The slaughter of our daughters
Nepal ranks highest for sex ratio at birth in the region due to gender-biased sex selection

Nepal census undercounted 800k
The country’s population is on the move, and the 2021 census missed out on a whole lot of them

Nepal’s demographic dividend
A year-and-half after the Nepal’s 2021 National Population and Housing Census was conducted, the final results were finally published on 24…

Arithmetics of demography
China, the world’s most populous country is expected to be overtaken by India in 2023. Moreover, by 2060 India’s population is projected to be…

Nepalis moving from mountains to plains
On 27 January, Nepal’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) published the preliminary report of the 2021 census, ten years after the last…

Nepal to conduct census amidst Covid-19 surge
Nepal is being engulfed by a second Covid-19 wave, but that has not deterred the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) as it puts finishing touches…

Back to the future in Nepal
For Nepalis who migrated to New South Wales, it must feel like going from the frying pan into the fire

Nepal in the 2020s
Photo : SONIA AWALENepal is stepping up preparations for its 10-year census in 2021, which is slated to be the most hitech in history and will…

Caring for those who cared
Photo: SHRADDHA SABURI HEALTH SERVICEAs a married, working woman with a child, it was impossible for Jasmine Bajracharya to take days off to…

The insect that changed Nepal’s history
OUTBREAK: Experimental spraying for mosquitos on inner walls of houses in the Tarai in the 1950s. Pic: USOM records, US National Archives,…

Migrating males and population decline
Nepal’s fertility rate is going down even though contraceptive use has not increasedTHE RIGHT SHOT: Health worker Januka Dhakal injects…
