for example according to ndhs in the infant mortality average in nepal for indigenous peoples was deaths per live births while the national average was viet nam appears to be doing better in terms of reducing the infant mortality rate but it has not been successful in reducing the disparity between its vulnerable ethnic minorities and the majority population given the highly variable information availability we have information on the indicators for only few countries in south asia for example nepal provides a glimpse of the situation in all three aspects of child mortality based on the further analysis of the national data for india mohindra and labonte have analysed the time trend information from the national family and health survey nfhs nfhs nfhs bennett and dahal did same for nepal using the data set generated from national demographic and health survey