Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Introduction to Demography


Demography refers to the scientific study of population, primarily with development. It is a scientific dealing with the birth, death, migration, and marriage of the human population. It is also the study of population characteristics and changes in the size and structure of population of a particular geographical area. It is the science of human population and the social condition of a nation. Nepali or Nepalese are descendants of migrants from parts of earlier Greater Nepal, Tibet, India, and parts of Burma and Yunnan, along with native tribal populations. Indo-Aryan and East Asian looking mixed people live in the hill region. The mountainous region is sparsely populated above 3,000 m (9,800 ft), but in central and western Nepal ethnic Tibetans inhabit even higher semi-arid valleys north of the Himalaya. Kathmandu Valley, in the middle hill region, constitutes a small fraction of the nation's area but is the most densely populated, with almost 5 percent of the nation's population. Nepali society is multilingual, multi religious and multiethnic.

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