Nepal NSO Infographics: Population, Life Expectancy and Social Determinants of Health
An original reading guide to Nepal’s NSO economic and social infographics, with census context, life-expectancy definitions and the supplied Nepali PDF.
PHC-Nepal editorial summary · Source publisher: National Statistics Office, Nepal
Independent report interpretation, not medical review or publisher endorsement.
Editorial standardsReport at a glance
- Publisher
- National Statistics Office, Nepal
- Edition
- Poush 2081 BS
- Release
- Poush 2081 BS
- Evidence period
- Mixed sources, including Census 2078 BS (2021)
- Report type
- Statistical compilation · Nepal
- Original PDF
- 79 pages · supplied copy
Contents
Editorial context
Independent PHC-Nepal editorial summary, not a publisher endorsement. The edition and observation period below identify what the evidence covers. Official source links were researched on 28 October 2026; new editions are added after editorial review, not automatically scraped. The supplied Nepali compilation is dated Poush 2081 BS on its publication page. Its charts use different source years. The first 50 pages were extracted; selected health charts were visually checked to avoid OCR errors. A matching official landing page for this exact compilation was not independently located; its download is identified as the supplied copy.
Key points
- The publisher is Nepal’s National Statistics Office; the compilation is dated Poush 2081 BS.
- The life-expectancy infographic reports 71.3 years overall, 68.2 for males and 73.8 for females, in its Census 2078 context (PDF page 14).
- Population structure, household amenities and poverty are useful social-determinant context, not clinical diagnoses.
- Each chart needs its own source year; the compilation date does not make every number current.
What this Nepali statistical compilation contains
नेपालको आर्थिक सामाजिक क्षेत्रका केही प्रमुख तथ्याङ्कको इन्फोग्राफिक्स is a National Statistics Office collection of visual summaries. Its contents cover population, living standards and poverty, national accounts, agriculture, trade, environment and labour. These topics help explain the conditions in which health programmes operate.
For public-health readers, population structure, household conditions, fertility, disability and maternal mortality deserve careful attention. A chart is a communication aid; the underlying census or survey remains the authoritative source for definitions and detailed tables.
Reading life expectancy correctly
The visually checked page 14 gives overall life expectancy as 71.3 years, with 68.2 years for males and 73.8 years for females in the chart’s 2078 BS context. Automated extraction misread the Nepali numeral in the overall estimate, which is why this article uses the visible original rather than the OCR output.
Life expectancy summarizes mortality conditions using demographic methods; it is not the average age of people currently alive and not a prediction of how long a particular person will live. Keep the source year and method with the number when preparing teaching slides or a planning document.
Maternal mortality and safe comparisons
The compilation includes a census-linked maternal mortality study and provincial maternal mortality ratios. A maternal mortality ratio is expressed per 100,000 live births, not per 100,000 residents. It is different from a maternal mortality rate and from the number of maternal deaths.
Before citing a provincial comparison, consult the underlying study for the death definition, reference period, ascertainment method and uncertainty. Do not combine a census-linked estimate with a WHO modelled series without explaining the methodological differences.
Source access and citation guidance
Cite the National Statistics Office, the Nepali compilation title, Poush 2081 BS and the relevant page. For detailed analysis, also cite the original census or survey named beside the chart. The original 79-page supplied PDF is available below.
The linked NSO national census report directory is an official related source, not an independently verified landing page for this exact infographic compilation. This distinction prevents a general institutional link from being represented as proof of an exact file’s publication location.
Official sources and report citations
Follow these sources for full tables, definitions, corrections and newer editions. The supplied PDFs above are identified separately from official publication records.
- NSO: National Population and Housing Census reports
Official underlying census publications; not an exact landing page for the supplied infographic compilation.
Related health report
Health StatisticsNepal MICS 2024–25: Child Health, Nutrition and Household Survey FindingsRead Nepal MICS 2024–25 health findings, nutrition indicators, survey methods and citation guidance, with the February 2026 NSO–UNICEF report download.Educational notice: This article summarizes historical and public-health material. It does not replace current national protocols, clinical judgement or care from a qualified professional.
Social determinants behind health-service needs
Household water, toilet facilities, cooking fuels, education and poverty can help frame access and environmental-health questions. For example, a population’s cooking-fuel pattern is relevant to household air-pollution prevention, while age structure matters for the balance of child, reproductive and older-person services.
These descriptive figures cannot demonstrate that a specific household exposure caused an illness. Avoid comparing charts with different years or denominators as if they formed a single contemporaneous dataset.