Status of Nepalese Children
Out of 100 Children in Nepal....
- 86 live in villages
- 14 live in cities
- 90 are immunized
- 48 are malnourished
- 40 belong to extremely poor families
- 80 are admitted to school, but only 51 complete the primary level
- 86 boys and 74.6 girls are enrolled in primary level school
- 41% of the total population are children below 16 years of age
- 27, 000 children die of diarrhea every year
- There is only one 300 bedded Children’s Hospital
- There is one child specialist per 104,066 children
- Out of 2.5 million disabled people, 5% are children
- 52% of the population do not have toilets
- There are 23,885 primary schools
- 32,000 children are working in stone quarries
- The child mortality rate of children below 5 years of age is 61 per 1000 birth.
- The infant mortality rate of below 1 year of age is 48 per 1000 birth.
- In Nepal, the neonatal mortality rate is 34 per 1000 birth.
- Children aged below 16 year's constitute 40.93 percent of the total population.
- 87.4 percent of children are admitted in primary level school. But about 40% stop school before primary level complete.
- Among the school going age children, 48 percent are girls.
- Children who are physically disabled constitute 1 - 8 percent of the total population.
- Four hundred seventy-five children have lost their lives in the armed conflict in Nepal.
- Twenty-four children have lost their lives in different political incidents.
- Out of all marriages, 34 percent are child marriages.
- There are approximately five thousand street children in Nepal.
- Every year 27,000 children used to die due to diarrhea but now it has become 24,000 in a year.
- There are 2.6 million child labors in Nepal.
- 1088 children below 19 years of age are infected by HIV.
- Children have contributed 6 percent of Nepal's total domestic production.
- Twelve thousands Nepali girls are sold in India every year.
- 40 percent (Thirty-seven lakhs ninety thousand three hundred and fifty seven) of children are suffering of malnutrition and are affected by diseases through it.
- 35 percent children's have birth registration of the total children's population in which 51.29 percent are boys and 48.71 percent are girls.
- There are approximately forty six thousand three hundred and nine consume drugs. Among them 21.6 percent between the ages 15 and 19 use drugs.
