Editing Demographics of Nepal (section)

=== Demographic and Health Survey ===

Total fertility rate (TFR) (wanted fertility rate) and crude birth rate (CBR):<ref>{{cite web|url=http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/dhs#_r=&collection=&country=&dtype=&from=1890&page=11&ps=&sk=&sort_by=nation&sort_order=&to=2014&topic=&view=s&vk=|title=MEASURE DHS: Demographic and Health Surveys|work=worldbank.org|access-date=16 July 2014|archive-date=4 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160904173731/http://microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/catalog/dhs#_r=&collection=&country=&dtype=&from=1890&page=11&ps=&sk=&sort_by=nation&sort_order=&to=2014&topic=&view=s&vk=|url-status=live}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|-
! rowspan=2| Year
! colspan=2| Total
! colspan=2| Urban
! colspan=2| Rural
|-
! CBR !! TFR
! CBR !! TFR
! CBR !! TFR
|-
| style="text-align:center" | 1996
| 37
| 4.64 (2.9)
| 27
| 2.85 (1.9)
| 38
| 4.83 (3.1)
|-
| style="text-align:center" | 2001
| 33.5
| 4.1 (2.5)
| 20.6
| 2.1 (1.4)
| 34.9
| 4.4 (2.6)
|-
| style="text-align:center" | 2006
| 28.4
| 3.1 (2.0)
| 21.9
| 2.1 (1.4)
| 29.5
| 3.3 (2.1)
|-
| style="text-align:center" | 2011
| 24.3
| 2.6 (1.8)
| 16.6
| 1.6 (1.2)
| 25.5
| 2.8 (1.8)
|-
| style="text-align:center" | 2016
| 22.4
| 2.3 (1.7)
| 19.9
| 2.0 (1.5)
| 26.3
| 2.9 (2.1)
|-
| style="text-align:center" | 2022
| 20.0
| 2.1 (1.7)
| 19.3
| 2.0 (1.6)
| 21.4
| 2.4 (1.8)
|}

The following demographic statistics are from the 2011 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS).<ref name="Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) 2011">{{cite web |url=http://www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/FR257/FR257.pdf |title=Nepal Demographic and Health Survey 2011. |access-date=2011-05-07 |archive-date=3 August 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803085926/http://www.measuredhs.com/pubs/pdf/FR257/FR257.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

'''Median birth intervals (median number of months since preceding birth)'''
:Total: 36.2
:Rural: 35.9
:Urban: 40.3 (2011)

'''Median age at first birth'''
:Median age: 20.1 (2011)

'''Fertility rate – past trend and present'''
:Total fertility rate: 4.6 children born/woman (1996)
:Total fertility rate: 4.1 children born/woman (2001)
:Total fertility rate: 3.1 children born/woman (2006)

:Total fertility rate: 2.6 children born/woman
:Rural fertility rate: 2.8 children born/woman
:Urban fertility rate: 1.6 children born/woman (2011)

'''Ideal family size – mean ideal number of children'''
:Overall (female/male): 2.1 / 2.3
:Currently married (female/male): 2.2 / 2.3
:Urban (female/male): 1.9 / 2.0
:Rural (female/male): 2.2 / 2.3 (2011)

'''Ideal family size by gender and age group'''
:Below is a table of the ideal family size by gender and age for 2011.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
|-
! Age
! Women
! Men
|-
| 15–19
| 1.9
| 2.2
|-
| 20–24
|  1.9
|  2.1
|-
| 25–29
|  2.1
|  2.1
|-
| 30–34
|  2.2
|  2.3
|-
| 35–39
|  2.3
|  2.4
|-
| 40–44
|  2.5
|  2.4
|-
| 45–49
|  2.6
|  2.6
|}