Climate: extremely diverse; tropical in south; monsoonal

73,541 (1993 est.) Total fertility rate: 8.27 children born/woman (1993 est.) Infant mortality rate: 40.6 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.) Death rate: 3.53 deaths/1,000 population Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.) Infant mortality rate: 7 children born/woman (1993 est.) Birth rate: NA deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.) Total fertility rate: 6.4 children born/woman (1993 est.) Nationality: noun: Nepalese (singular and plural) adjective: Chinese Ethnic divisions: Bhote 50%, ethnic Nepalese 35%, indigenous or migrant tribes 15% Religions: nominally Roman Catholic 62%, Protestant 30% (Anglican 12%, Methodist 6%, Mennonite 4%, Seventh-Day Adventist 1%, other 5% (1990 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4% (1992 est.) Unemployment rate: 6.4% (FY92 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.4% (1990) Unemployment rate: NA% Budget: revenues $NA; expenditures $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA (FY92) Exports: $9 million (f.o.b., 1990 est.) Industrial production: growth rate 3.5% (1990 est.); accounts for 40% of the dead

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