Nepal health target populations

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. Stocks at 1 Magh of each fiscal year; births over the year around it.

Notes for planners

Reference date. The projection is a stock at 8 Asar, about 22 June. Each fiscal year’s figures are the stock moved to 1 Magh, about 15 January, by linear interpolation between the two surrounding projection years. Births are the live births over the projection year whose midpoint is 1 Magh, so they are already the annual figure. This is the rule the HMIS target-population spreadsheets have used since 2023.

Month windows. A window in months, such as 6-23 months, takes an even share of each year of age: half of the under-ones plus all the one-year-olds. Two rows differ deliberately from the earlier spreadsheets, which took 5/12 of the under-ones for 6-11 months and 2/12 for 6-8 months; here they are 6/12 and 3/12, which is what the month counts say.

Institutional population. Each district has one row for its institutional population, listed among the municipalities with “(institutional population)” in the name. It has no wards. District, province and national totals include it.

Totals. Every tier is the sum of its wards. The national figure summed from wards runs between 17,000 and 35,000 people above the national projection file, about 0.1 percent, because the ward and national projections are run separately and are reported as they are rather than rescaled. The difference for each fiscal year is in the page’s data (data/meta.json).

The scenario, and updating it. These figures follow the National Statistics Office’s medium scenario of the 2021-based projection, taken as supplied. The scenario is an input, not a fixture: the same calculation runs on any projection in the PopSyM format. When newer evidence arrives, such as the births, deaths and immunisation registers HMIS itself collects, the fertility and mortality assumptions can be updated and every target population on this page recomputed for every fiscal year, with the earlier vintage kept for comparison.

DHS-based rows. Married women of reproductive age (TP18) are women by five-year age group times the proportion married in the 2022 Demographic and Health Survey, by district. Expected pregnancies (TP19) are births by five-year age of mother times the DHS pregnancies-per-birth multiplier, by district. Women with a direct obstetric complication (TP30) are 15 percent of expected live births. The district coefficients are applied to every ward of the district; the coefficient files themselves are country data and are not in this repository.

Source: Formulas: . Built .