Grain Moisture Meter
Figure 2: GNI per Capita of Nepal, South Asia and Low Income Countries ("Nepal," 2015c)
Figure 1: Land Useage in Nepal ("Nepal," 2015b)
About Nepal
References:
Canada. (2015). Retrieved from http://data.un.org/CountryProfile.aspx?crname=Canada
Nepal. (2015a). Retrieved October 18, 2015, from http://data.un.org/CountryProfile.aspx?crName=Nepal
Nepal. (2015b). Retrieved October 18, 2015, from http://faostat3.fao.org/browse/area/149/E
Nepal. (2015c). Retrieved from http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.DFCT
Landlocked between China and India, lies the small country of Nepal. The population of Nepal is 28 121 000 (“Nepal,” 2015a), which lower than Canada’s; however, due to the small area of this country it has a population density is 191.1 people per square kilometer (“Nepal,” 2015a), which is much higher than Canada’s 3.6 people per square kilometers (“Canada,” 2015). This number has serious implications for food security in this country, as there is are more people to feed per acre of land. Furthermore, only 28.8% of land is used for agricultural usage (“Nepal,” 2015b), meaning there are many people to feed on a relatively small area of land. The breakdown of land usage is shown in Figure 3.
Moreover, Nepal has a low gross national income (GNI) per capita at a value of $730.0 USD in 2014 (“Nepal,” 2015c). This value is slightly above the average of $625.6 USD for low income countries, but substantially lower than the average in South Asia of $1501.6 USD (“Nepal,” 2015c). Figure shows a graph displaying the GNI per capita of these three groups, as well as the trend over the past eight years. All of these groups have shown a trend upwards over this period (“Nepal,” 2015c). Even still, all of these values are tremendously low when compared to Canada’s GNI per capita of $51158.6 USD (“Canada,” 2015).