Nepal
Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal
- Capital
- Kathmandu
- Region
- Southern Asia
- Population, 2025
- 30 million
- Currency
- NPR
- Area
- 147,181 kmΒ²
Across Nepal's 19 priced cities, one person needs about $409 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $213.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
58out of 100
- Purchasing power25%40
- Safety20%64
- Health care15%58
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%71
- Connectivity10%39
- Cost10%99
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #76
What it costs
Averages over the countryβs cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
18.8
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
2.8
New York = 100
Purchasing power
60.8
New York = 100
One person
$409
A month, rent included
Net salary
$213
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$126
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$1,536
2025
Growth
+4.4%
2025
Unemployment
10.5%
2025
Inflation
2.7%
2025
Life expectancy
70.6 years
2024
Internet users
46%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 36%
- SourceWikipedia
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 30%
- SourceWikipedia
- VAT or sales tax
- 13%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeoβs crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 63.9
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 36.1
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2020
- 2.1
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #92 worldwide
- 89
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- β
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +12%
Cities in Nepal
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Lalitpur (Patan) | 66 | 19.2 | $163 | β | β | 299.3K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 2Janakpurdham (Janakpur) | 65 | 15.8 | $52.42 | $328 | 129.0 | 195.4K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 3Birgunj (Birganj) | 65 | 17.4 | $34.29 | β | β | 268.3K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 4Birendranagar | 63 | β | β | β | β | 154.9K | Low confidence |
| 5Hetauda | 62 | 15.8 | $61.15 | $213 | 81.4 | 196K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 6Dharan | 62 | β | β | β | β | 173.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Madhyapur Thimi | 62 | β | β | β | β | 120K | Low confidence |
| 8Nepalgunj (Nepalganj) | 61 | β | β | $97.96 | β | 166.3K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 9Bharatpur | 60 | 14.5 | $91.43 | $196 | 72.3 | 369.4K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 10LahΔn | 60 | β | β | β | β | 103K | Low confidence |
| 11Dhangadhi | 60 | β | β | β | β | 204.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Biratnagar | 59 | 17.2 | $45.85 | $164 | 61.6 | 244.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 13Kathmandu | 59 | 19.4 | $222 | $273 | 60.8 | 1.4M | High confidence, 71 contributors |
| 14Butwal | 57 | 17.0 | $45.72 | $122 | 46.2 | 195.1K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 15Pokhara | 57 | 18.8 | $126 | $180 | 50.3 | 600.1K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 16Bhaktapur | 56 | 16.6 | β | β | β | β | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 17Gaighat | 56 | 17.6 | β | β | β | β | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 18Narayangarh, Chitwan | 56 | 17.5 | β | β | β | β | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 19Banepa | 56 | 18.4 | β | β | β | 67.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 20Siddharthanagar (Bhairahawa) | 56 | 17.7 | β | β | β | 63.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 21Kirtipur | 56 | 19.4 | β | β | β | 44.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 22Tansen | 56 | 19.4 | β | β | β | 23.7K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 23Bhadrapur | 55 | 16.3 | β | $220 | 86.2 | 19.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 24Baglung | 51 | 18.2 | β | $163 | 58.5 | 23.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 25Bhimdatta | 48 | β | β | $131 | β | 88.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 26Tulsipur | 48 | β | β | β | β | 39.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 27Gaur | 48 | β | β | β | β | 27.3K | Low confidence |
| 28Dhulikhel | 48 | β | β | β | β | 16.3K | Low confidence |
| 29Dang | 48 | β | β | β | β | β | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 30Damak | 48 | β | β | β | β | β | Low confidence |
| 31DadeldhurΔ | 48 | 17.1 | $39.12 | $97.81 | 37.7 | 19K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |