Tackle Out-migration

As Nepal’s population growth rate sees a steep decline at 0.93 per cent, it faces another bitter reality – the number of people leaving the country has almost doubled in the last 20 years. This might turn the nation’s resolve to cash in on the demographic dividend into mere rhetoric. Policymakers and authorities often claim that the country stands to benefit from the active population (65.5 per cent), but in the absence of appropriate policy and opportunities at home, youths are deserting their native land in search of better livelihood and education prospects abroad. It is a matter of deep worry that a record number of people have gone to foreign soils to work and settle there. This has been disclosed by the National Statistics Office's analytical report on migration from the National Census-2078, made public on Tuesday.