The 5 districts with the highest life expectancy and income in Nepal

01 Jan 2016 - codefornepal

View of Pokhara, Nepal. View of Pokhara, Nepal. January 2014. Photo: Mia Mitchell

If you want to increase your chances of a long life, you should move to Ramechhap, a beautiful district in Janakpur Zone. On average, the life expectancy of those in Ramechhap is 72.9 years, the highest in Nepal, according to the 2014 Human Development Report.

If you want to increase your chances of making money, the data points to Manang as a good place to be. The average per capita income of residents in Manang is $3,166 US dollars, the highest in Nepal.

Here are the five districts with the highest life expectancy rates in Nepal:

  1. Ramechhap: 72.9 years
  2. Gorkha: 71.7 years
  3. Saptari: 71.34 years
  4. Siraha: 71.29 years
  5. Rautahat: 70.99 years

Here are the five districts with highest per capita income:

  1. Manang: 3,166 US Dollars
  2. Kathmandu: 2,764 US Dollars
  3. Mustang: 1,922 US Dollars
  4. Lalitpur: 1,894 US Dollars
  5. Solukhumbu: 1,841 US Dollars

To find out where other districts stand in terms of life expectancy rates and per capita income, explore this interactive map.

The data is based on the Human Development Report 2014 (PDF). Here’s the Google doc of the data we scraped, if you would like to use it.

Is there anything that surprises you in this map? Are there some districts that you thought would have have high per capita income but didn’t, or where you thought people might live longer but the map shows otherwise? Tell us in the comments.