1. ForecastsNepal

   Nepal: births are already as low as the UN expected only only after 2050

   2023: 574k. The UN's 2010 projection expected about 711k for 2023; only only after 2050 did it fall to this level, at least 27 years later.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Nepal: 46% are online, but only 16% have clean water at home whenever needed
• Nepal: the share of adults with obesity has overtaken the share going hungry
• Nepal: in 2020–2023 net migration was lower than all 12 UN projections assumed
• Nepal: all 12 UN projections since 1998 expected more people than there are
• Nepal: from 4.87 to 3.12 children per woman in just 10 years
• The IMF foresaw 28 of 537 economic downturns around the world a year ahead

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