Poverty in Nepal has gone down by six per cent
Posted in NEWS on Jan 2, 2012 | no responses

Statistics show that poverty in Nepal has gone down by six per cent during the past six years.

According to the Household Survey 2010-11, only 25.2 per cent of the total population in Nepal is below poverty line as against 31 per cent in 2003/4. Those who are unable to get 2220 calories a day are considered the poor in Nepal.

Releasing a survey report, director of the household survey branch, Pokhara, Dhundi Raj Lamichhane informed that about 15 per cent of the people living in the urban areas are poor, while the number of the people below poverty line in the rural areas stands at 27 per cent.

Data indicate that poverty level is the lowest in the hilly urban centres. In Pokhara, poverty is just eight per cent, whereas poverty is about 11 per cent in Kathmandu.

Lamichhane said that 22.2 per cent of the people of the western development region are below poverty line. In the mountain region, poverty level is 42 per cent. The number of people living below poverty line is 24 per cent in Terai and Hilly regions.

There is three per cent poverty among the households having only one member.

The survey show that the number of population between 15 and 59 years has increased to 54.2 per cent from 52 per cent in the last 15 years, while the number of dependent people has gone down to 84 per cent from 97 per cent in the same period. Average family size has decreased to 4.9 per cent from 5.7 per cent during the period.

In the western development region, the number of dependents is 86 per cent, while the family size stands at 4.6 per cent. In the region, 34 per cent of the people are landlords. (Source:TRN)


Bookmark/Share it:   

  • Delicious
  • Facebook
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Twitter
  • RSS Feed
  • Google
  • Digg
  • LinkedIn
  • Technorati



Related Posts :

  • Visitor arrivals to Nepal by air in October this year increased by 12 per cent to 62,712 as compared to the same month last year, according to figures released by Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). The number of tou ...

  • Tourist arrivals in Nepal by air reached a new height in March this year. The number of tourists who visited Nepal last month increased by 34.6 per cent to 44,431, 44,43, according to figures released by the Immigration Office at the Tribh ...

  • Strong South Asian visitor arrivals, especially Indian visitors, pushed the overall international tourist arrivals by 13.7 per cent to 42,716 by air in February. The arrivals by air enjoyed a sustained positive growth in the international ...

  • South Asia has seen an accelerated job growth and a substantial decrease in poverty over the past three decades, second only to East Asia, according to the World Bank. The region will be the largest contributor to the global workforce over ...

  • The figures, released by Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), reveal that visitor arrivals in the month of April 2010, increased to 38,694, a 2.3 per cent compared to the corresponding period last year. The arrivals f ...

  • Tourist arrivals via air have been encouraging in the last couple of months — South Asian and Chinese arrivals especially posted robust growth. Figures released by Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), reveal that visito ...

  • The monthly tourist arrivals by air posted a record in October, but as the Nepal Tourism Year 2011 (NTY 2011) draws to a closure, meeting its visitors target seems to be far fetched. According to Immigration Office, Tribhuwan International ...

  • The number of broadband lines worldwide grew by 17.4 million in the third quarter of 2011 to a total 581.3 million, according to latest figures from Point Topic for the Broadband Forum. It is the highest quarterly additions since early 200 ...

  • The country witnessed over four times increase in trade deficit in the four months of current fiscal year. From Rs 26.62 billion deficit in the first month, the trade deficit has gone up to Rs 111.80 billion during the four months, according ...

  • The consumers of data and internet services reached to 3.11 million until mid-July with overall 10.89 per cent internet penetration rate, according to the MIS report of Nepal Telecommunications Authority (NTA). Some 2.83 million people are ...