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Nepal

29,618,118

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-32.94K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+20.7%from 24.55M
Life expectancy70.6 years2024
Fertility rate1.96births per woman · 2024
Urban population67.0%2025
RegionSouth AsiaLower middle income

A country at every age

How Nepal is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1428.1%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6465.3%Working-age population
Ages 65+6.6%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate19.0births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate7.0deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+12.0births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-364.7Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Nepal look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 34.64M in 2050—16.8% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202429.65M
  2. 205034.64M
  3. 210031.83M
Median age in 205035.0years
Births in 2050432.53Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050266.36Kduring the year
Life expectancy76.0years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196010.12M
  2. 197012.44M
  3. 198015.55M
  4. 199019.52M
  5. 200024.55M
  6. 201027.34M
  7. 202028.97M
  8. 202529.62M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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