Upcoming event
Lecture Series on National Population: " Population heterogeneity in Nepal’s demography" 11 October 2022
Hosted by the Asian Population
Association and Asian Demographic Research Institute (under the framework of
Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis), the third
session of the lecture series on National Population will be held on 11th October.
< Date >
Tuesday 11th October 2022
< Time >
9:00~(Vienna), 14:00~(Bangkok), 15:00~(Brunei/Singapore/Shanghai),
16:00~(Tokyo),
< Speaker >
Professor Samir KC (PhD)
< Title >
Population heterogeneity in Nepal’s
demography
< Abstract >
Nepal is transitioning in many avenues, including political, socio-economic,
and demographic. Politically, the country adopted a new constitution in 2015
that formally established Nepal as a federal republic with a new administrative
structure consisting of seven regions (called states) and 753 municipalities.
Economically, Nepal is ready to graduate from a Low Developing Country (LDC) by
2026. In parallel, Nepal has completed its fertility transition reaching a
total fertility rate of 2 children per woman in 2019. Moreover, the mortality
situation is improving rapidly, as indicated by the under-five mortality rate reaching
28 deaths per 1000 births. The Nepalese population is highly mobile in terms of
internal and international migration. Also, there has been significant
improvement in education progression. While national-level aggregates provide
an average picture, it also masks inequality and variation in demographic
behaviours, especially as Nepal has a considerable population heterogeneity by
region, educational attainment, caste, and ethnicity. In this presentation, we
will focus on showing the population heterogeneity in demography and human
capital and identifying issues that have significant consequences.
< About the speaker >
Samir KC has been a professor and founding
member of the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) at Shanghai
University since 2015. KC leads ADRI’s research pillar on Human Capital and
Development. He received his master’s degree in statistics from Tribhuvan
University, Nepal (1997) and his PhD from the University of Groningen, the
Netherlands (2009). He also leads the Multi-dimensional Demographic Modeling
research group in the Population and Just Societies Program at International
Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), where KC has worked since 2005.
KC’s primary research interests are: developing and applying multi-dimensional
multi-state population models in demographic analysis and projections, focusing
on modelling human capital formation (education and health) and urbanization.
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