Why is Nepal an underdeveloped country?
Nepal
- bad connection to markets
- partial bad agriculture
- new government
- classification system
- corruption
- higher import than export
Why is Nepal an underdeveloped country?
GDP and other information
Population growth rate: 1.768%
Birth rate: 21.85 births/1,000 population
Death rate: 6.75 deaths/1,000 population
Infant mortality rate: 43.13 deaths/1,000 live births
Life expectancy at birth: 66.51 years
HDI: 0.463
GDP: 19.42 billion $
Workers in sectors: Export goods in sectors:
68% agriculture 80% agriculture sector
17% industry sector 22% industrial sector
3% service sector 37% service sector
History and Politics
- Mountain lake & earth quake -> humans settled down
- Monarchy with many wars
- First democratic elections 1991 -> more corruption than
with former monarchy
- Civil war from 1996 to 2006 against monarchy
- May 2008 disempowerment of the king
- July 2008 Ram Baran Yadav was elected as the first
president of Nepal