Nepal Ranks 143rd (among 145 counties) with a Human Development Index (HDI) value of 0.499. With this HDI value, Nepal belongs to the category of the low human development countries. However, it only ranks 2nd in this category, preceded by Cameroon and followed by Pakistan but Nepal’s HDI value has been steadily increasing since 1975.

Nepal ranks 70th among 94 developing countries for which Human Poverty Index has been calculated with HPI value of 41.9%.

Nepal is one of the worst performer in the South Asia with the ranking of 119 in the Gender related Development Index (GDI). In the same category Sri Lanka ranks 80th and Pakistan (the worst performer) in 120th position.