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The economy of Nepal is a developing category and is largely dependent on agriculture and remittances. [6] Until the mid-20th century Nepal was an isolated pre-industrial society, which entered the modern era in 1951 without schools, hospitals, roads, telecommunications , electric power, industry, or civil service.
Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index, which scored 180 countries on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"), gave Nepal a score of 35. When ranked by score, Nepal ranked 108th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [ 2 ]
The list has been cited by journalists and academics in making broad comparative points about countries or regions. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The report uses 12 factors to determine the rating for each nation, including security threats, economic implosion, human rights violations and refugee flows.
Experts have called for better training for pilots in Nepal, with some crashes attributed to poor decision making. Nepal's worst crash in three decades killed 72 people in January 2023 and was ...
Nepal was one of the first countries to recognise an independent Bangladesh, and the two countries seek to enhance greater cooperation, on trade and water management; seaports in Bangladesh, being closer, are seen as viable alternatives to India's monopoly on Nepal's third-country trade. [171] Nepal was the first South Asian country to ...
Of this population 2.9% are endemic, meaning they exist in no other country, and 5.6% are threatened. In addition, Nepal is home to at least 6973 species of plants, of which 4.5% are native to the country itself. [8] Not to mention, Nepal's bamboo forests are home to the Red Panda, a threatened species, found very few places in the world. [9]
The landlocked developing countries (LLDC) are developing countries that are landlocked. [1] Due to the economic and other disadvantages suffered by such countries, the majority of landlocked countries are least developed countries (LDCs), with inhabitants of these countries occupying the bottom billion tier of the world's population in terms of poverty. [2]
Nepal is a least developed country, with 28.6 percent of the population living in multidimensional poverty. [12] Analysis of trends from 1971 to 2014 by the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) shows that the average annual maximum temperature has been increasing by 0.056 °C per year. [13]