About DataNepal

How data gets here

Every dataset records two separate things: who produced it and where DataNepal obtained this copy. Those are different questions. Population figures are produced by UNFPA and obtained through the Humanitarian Data Exchange; crediting the platform rather than the producer would misattribute the work.

We prefer the original authoritative publisher, then official structured downloads, then authoritative international mirrors, then trusted aggregators. Scraping and PDF extraction are last resorts, used only where reuse terms permit. See the dataset catalogue for the full provenance of every source.

What we do not publish

DataNepal publishes aggregate statistics. It does not ingest, store or publish personal data. Nepal’s Privacy Act 2075 (2018) names voter identity card details among protected personal information, and a predecessor of this project served row-level voter records — including parents’ and spouses’ names — before that endpoint was removed.

Publicly reachable somewhere else does not make something appropriate to republish here.

Reference periods and revisions

A figure’s reference period is not the date we fetched it, and a projection is not a census count. Both are stated wherever a number appears. When a publisher restates a figure, the previous value is kept with the date it was superseded — the full history is downloadable.

Reuse

Each dataset carries its own licence. DataNepal does not relicense upstream data, and attribution requirements travel with it. A published table’s effective licence is computed from its sources, taking the most restrictive — you will find it stated alongside every download.

16 published tables from 4 source datasets. Code is MIT-licensed and the whole pipeline is open source.