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Fact Sheets
Facts about
Poverty in Nepal
- Most Nepalese live on a $1 day or less!
- Nepal is the one of the poorest countries
in Asia. Country's 10% of the population takes 50% of the
wealth; the bottom 40% takes 10%.
- 85% of Nepalese don't have health access.
- World's 48th poorest country is Nepal
- Total Debt of the country * External
$2.55 Billion, about $97 per person
- Nepalese rural people are poor due to
lack of access to resources, low productivity land, roads
to obtain agriculture inputs and to sell agriculture produce.
- Nepal's many of the social indicators
are the lowest in South Asia.
- Nepal's population will be 48 million
by 2030.
- Maoist's bandhs have kept much of Nepal's
countryside paralyzed, causing severe poverty and hardship.
- Overall child poverty in the Himalaya
is so high that as many as 50% of children (aged 4 to 14)
need to work normally a minimum of 60 hours a week in child
labour, often in the worst and most discriminatory jobs.
- Unlike in the developed world, the choice
for most Nepalese families is to work or to starve. There
is no way for them to be unemployed and eat and many take
up jobs in the worst surroundings. For girls this can mean
anything from smashing rocks to prostitution in India.
- Poverty is one of the most pressing problems
in Nepal, where around 38 percent of the population is extremely
poor and 48 percent of children are classed as chronically
undernourished.
- Poverty in Nepal does not mean starvation,
in fact far more people die from malnutrition than from
starvation. Poverty in Nepal means lack of education; it
means lack of infrastructure, no roads or electricity.
- Poverty in Nepal means that girls
have a tough deal and that children in general have harsh
and short lives. Poverty means that children die from things
like diarrhoea, that women don't understand about child
birth and that care is terrible.
December 2006
Source: UNICEF, ILO, Child Workers in Nepal
Concerned Centre (CWIN-Nepal)
P.O. Box 4374, Ravi Bhawan, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Tel: 4282255/4278064 Fax: 977- 1-4278016
Email: cwininfo@mos.com.np/raic@cwin.or.np/nrcic@cwin.org.np
URL: www.cwin.org.np
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