Between 1990 and 2017, Nepal underwent a change in disease burden from communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional (CMNN) disorders to noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). The proportion of risk factors that drive death from NCDs will and has continued to increase due to an aging population and lifestyle changes such as tobacco use, hazardous alcohol intake, poor diets, and insufficient physical activity. Here are the top 10 risk factors for mortality as determined by the Global Burden of Diseases (GBD), whose data is based on over 80,000 distinct data sources.
*The ranking is done based on research done by The Everest List