Health

The fertility rate in Nepal was at 3.7 births per woman in the early 2000s. Public expenditure on health was at 1.5 % of the GDP in 2004. Private expenditure on health was 4.1 % in 2004. In the early 2000s, there were 21 physicians per 100,000 people. Infant mortality was 56 per 1000 life births in 2005.