Nepal UK
Nepal Rastra Bank's economic research shows total remittance inflows accelerating sharply through FY2025–26, with the first six months alone (mid-July 2025 to mid-January 2026) bringing in Rs 1.062 trillion, up 39.1% year-on-year. Officially disclosed breakdowns concentrate on the Gulf states and Malaysia — Nepal Rastra Bank attributes roughly 40–42% of inflows to 17 Gulf countries, led by the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait — with no comparable UK-specific figure published in the sources reviewed for this article. That gap matters because the UK's Nepali population is structurally different from Gulf labour migrants: it skews toward students, Gurkha-linked settlers, and skilled professionals, whose remittance and investment patterns (tuition payments, property purchases, family support) are less visible in labour-remittance statistics built around Gulf contract workers. The Embassy of Nepal in London's Nepal-UK Economic Partnership Forum 2026, held earlier this year with more than 150 policymakers, investors and diaspora representatives, produced two agreements aimed at deepening trade, investment and technology ties — a signal that both governments see formalised UK-Nepal financial flows as underdeveloped relative to potential. Absent a published NRB country breakdown for the UK, claims about the size of the "British-Nepali contribution" to remittances should be treated as an open data gap rather than a settled figure, and NepalUK will follow up directly with Nepal Rastra Bank for country-disaggregated data.
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