Category: Shocking Statistics

SHOCKING STATISTICS: Around 80% Of Nepal’s Religious Artefacts Have Been Stolen

Al Jazeera's recent investigation focuses on the stolen antiques from Nepal. The 101 EAST episode "NEPAL : The Great Plunder" sees Steve Chao take us on a journey right up to Upper...

Shocking Statistics: Trafficking From Nepal To India Increases By 500%

We can only wish that some statistics were indeed 'fake news' and created solely for the purpose of the first of April. Unfortunately, this statistic is not. A study conducted by Sashastra...

Shocking Statistics: One Public Toilet For 46,000 People In Kathmandu Valley

In 2012 I blogged a post titled "More Nepalis Have Access To Mobile Phones Than Toilets" and fast forward to 2017, Kathmandu Valley only has ONE public toilet for 46,000 people (WaterAid's...

Shocking Statistics: More Nepalis Have Access To Mobile Phones Than Toilets

The Nepal Census 2011 was published in late November last month and there are quite a few interesting statistics for read, here's a quick glance at some of the interesting figures: Nepal...

Shocking Statistics : NepaliSamajUK Gets 380,000 Hits a Day

So I was browsing through the NepaliSamajUK website which basically features all events happening in the UK. I went on the advertise section and was shocked to read that on average the...

Shocking Statistics: 49% Suffer from Chronic Malnutrition

49% of Nepali Children suffer from Chronic Malnutrition while 39% are underweight and 13% children are wasted due to acute malnutrition, the government revealed on Thursday. “The fact that one in every two...

Shocking Statistics : 45% of Nepalis Infected with TB

Bimal’s treatment involves taking a daily cocktail of 16 tablets. 45% of the population in Nepal is infected with tuberculosis (TB). There are 30,000 new cases of TB diagnosed every year in Nepal....

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