Nepal’s current population is 29,036,206 as of January 18, 2017 (Nepal Population, 2017). Nepal’s total median age is 23.6 years, with males being 22.4 and females 24.8 (CIA, 2017). Nepal has a high infant mortality rate with a total of 43.13 deaths out of 1,000 live births with males being higher with 43.15 out of 1,000 and females at 43.1 out of 1,000 live births (Moncada, 2017). The Nepalese has median life expectancy at birth of 66.51 years (Moncada, 2017). Why Nepal’s population growth is expanding is that they have a birth rate of 19.9 births/1,000 and a death rate of 5.7 deaths/1,000 (CIA, 2017).
Do to the large population and lack of good jobs available in Nepal many young Nepalese are migrating outside their own country to find jobs to send money home to their families. Around 10% of its population work outside of Nepal (Kaphle, 2014). With these numbers of emigrants, those leaving the country to live permanently in another country, will cause the population of Nepal to decline around 78,061 while the number of immigrants are not projected to equal those numbers (Nepal Population, 2017). The people of Nepal have been migrating to India for labor since the end of the Nepal-British India war (Gajurel, 2015). Migrating to find jobs picked up in the 1970’s to places other than India was stimulated by the oil boom to such places as the Gulf States, Malaysia and other South East Asian countries (Gajurel, 2015). These young men and women are lured to seek employment outside their own country by the prospect of making double the income that they would and sending remittance home to help their struggling families. The migration does not just include seeking jobs outside their own country, as many in the Northern parts of the country are traveling to the Southern areas known as the Terai, and the middle hill area known as the Pahar (Clewett, 2015). In 30 years from 1981 to 2011, the Terai area went from 6,556,828 to 13,318,705 whereas the mountain area only increased by 478,896 (Clewett, 2015). The earthquakes on 2015 saw in influx of the poor moving as they were left homeless.
- 0-14 years: 30.93% (male 4,646,048/female 4,333,105)
- 15-24 years: 21.86% (male 3,176,158/female 3,169,721)
- 25-54 years: 35.99% (male 4,707,264/female 5,740,985)
- 55-64 years: 6.22% (male 877,288/female 927,202)
- 65 years and over: 5.02% (male 723,523/female 732,620) (2016 est.)
Do to the large population and lack of good jobs available in Nepal many young Nepalese are migrating outside their own country to find jobs to send money home to their families. Around 10% of its population work outside of Nepal (Kaphle, 2014). With these numbers of emigrants, those leaving the country to live permanently in another country, will cause the population of Nepal to decline around 78,061 while the number of immigrants are not projected to equal those numbers (Nepal Population, 2017). The people of Nepal have been migrating to India for labor since the end of the Nepal-British India war (Gajurel, 2015). Migrating to find jobs picked up in the 1970’s to places other than India was stimulated by the oil boom to such places as the Gulf States, Malaysia and other South East Asian countries (Gajurel, 2015). These young men and women are lured to seek employment outside their own country by the prospect of making double the income that they would and sending remittance home to help their struggling families. The migration does not just include seeking jobs outside their own country, as many in the Northern parts of the country are traveling to the Southern areas known as the Terai, and the middle hill area known as the Pahar (Clewett, 2015). In 30 years from 1981 to 2011, the Terai area went from 6,556,828 to 13,318,705 whereas the mountain area only increased by 478,896 (Clewett, 2015). The earthquakes on 2015 saw in influx of the poor moving as they were left homeless.
- 0-14 years: 30.93% (male 4,646,048/female 4,333,105)
- 15-24 years: 21.86% (male 3,176,158/female 3,169,721)
- 25-54 years: 35.99% (male 4,707,264/female 5,740,985)
- 55-64 years: 6.22% (male 877,288/female 927,202)
- 65 years and over: 5.02% (male 723,523/female 732,620) (2016 est.)
- The population pyramid show the population of Nepal to be bottom heavy of children making up the majority of the population and the elder making up the least.
Population Pyramid retrieved from Population Pyramids of the World: http://populationpyramid.net/nepal/2016/
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This link provides a video of the impact that the rapid growth will have on Nepal in the future. The video shows the projected population growth through 2031. With the high birth rate and low death rate Nepal's population will expand rapidly.
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http://www.ecanadanepal.com/2016/08/migration-of-nepalese-youth-for-foreign.html
This link will take you to a video and article about the migration of young Nepalese for jobs. The article and video explains that the 2015 earthquake that hit Nepal caused the more of the population to stay in Nepal for recovery along with the strikes of manpower agencies against the free visa and ticket rule.