12 ACQUISITION OF CITIZENSHIP CERTIFICATE IN NEPAL ESTIMATION AND PROJECTION PROJECTION OF PEOPLE WITHOUT CITIZENSHIP CERTIFICATE IN THE UPCOMING 7 YEARS No. of citizenship certificates distributed through regular process 442,920 685,225 2014 2011 2013 2012 523,336* 220,036 467,887. Projection of Annual Increase of People Without Citizenship Certificates For the purpose of projection, the average citizenship certificate distributed for a year is Projected Eligible Population Projected Population with citizenship certificate Projected Eligible population without citizenship certificate 2015 727,203 467,887 259,317 2016 763,901 467,887 296,014 2017 693,123 467,887 225,236 2018 730,101 467,887 262,214 2019 770,028 467,887 302,141 2020 813,177 467,887 345,290 2021 859,846 467,887 391,959 Projection of Cumulative Population Without Citizenship Certificates in the Upcoming 7 Years 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 * 4.9 million 5.2 million 5.4 23.26 % 23.80 % 24.06 % million 5.7 24.43 % million 6.0 24.90% million 6.3 6.7 25.47% million 26.14% million In the year 2013, 1,126,430 people received citizenship certificates. Out of them, 603,094 people received citizenship certificates through integrated mobile camps and citizenship certificate distribution teams in addition to the regular process, where 523,336 citizenship certificates were distributed. Citizenship certificates distributed through the regular process was only used to calculate the average citizenship certificate distribution per year for the latter years.

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