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How rich are Nepal’s leaders?

Nepal’s cabinet made their assets public. Here each leader’s self-declared wealth sits next to ordinary Nepali life: the poverty line, average income, and the price of gold. Enter your own income and compare for yourself.

Rs 72,908
National poverty line / person / year
Nepal Living Standards Survey IV, National Statistics Office · 2022/23
Rs 2.0 lakh
Average income per person / year
World Bank · 2024
Rs 3.0 lakh
Gold, per tola
FENEGOSIDA daily rate, via ICT Frame · 12 April 2026

See instantly how many years of your income each leader’s declared wealth equals.

Rs/yr
Using national average
Sort:
  1. = 3,211 years at the national poverty line
  2. = 2,939 years at the national poverty line
  3. = 1,211 years at the national poverty line
  4. = 975 years at the national poverty line
  5. = 955 years at the national poverty line
  6. = 422 years at the national poverty line
  7. = 360 years at the national poverty line
  8. = 348 years at the national poverty line
  9. = 246 years at the national poverty line
  10. = 180 years at the national poverty line
  11. = 131 years at the national poverty line
  12. = 117 years at the national poverty line
  13. = 107 years at the national poverty line
  14. = 95 years at the national poverty line
  15. = 76 years at the national poverty line
  16. = 22 years at the national poverty line
  17. = 18 years at the national poverty line

The gap, in context

We do not hand down a verdict. We put the numbers side by side. Each leader’s promise sits next to their wealth above; the weighing is the voter’s job.

At least Rs 83.2 crore
The cabinet’s combined declared wealth
= 4,196 years of an average income. Only 3 priced their house and land, so the real figure is higher.
Rs 1.8 crore
The median minister’s declared wealth
An average earner would need 90 years to match it
~1,500 years
India, for comparison: a re-contesting MP’s average assets
in years of India’s own average income (ADR, 2024)
47 / 30
Nepal’s income / consumption inequality (Gini)
Income inequality is high; consumption inequality low. (World Bank, 2022/23)

Questions to sit with

  • Does the declared income source explain this scale of wealth? Check the career history above.
  • What concrete, published plan does the leader you voted for have to raise incomes like yours?
  • Wealth itself is not wrong, but who are the policies being written for? Transparency is the tool for checking exactly that.

Method & fairness

  • Every figure is self-declared by the office-holder, and each carries a source.
  • Where a figure is not public we write “Not disclosed”. We never estimate.
  • Gold is valued in rupees at the market rate on the day the details were released (12 April 2026). Holding wealth is not wrong. This is for transparency, not accusation.