Major Facts and Figures about NEPAL

The statistics are taken from the Government of Nepal, Central Bureau Statistics-2011. I am putting it in my blog if in case it is needed for your research or information, you can have a glance.

1.      Population of Nepal as of the census day (June 22, 2011) stands = 26,494,504

2.      Population Growth rate=1.35%

Total number of households in the country is  5,427,302  with 5,423,297 individual households and 4,005 institutional households (Barracks, Hostels, Monasteries etc). Terai constitutes 50.27 percent (13,318,705) of the total population while Hill and Mountain constitutes 43 percent (11,394,007) and 6.73 percent (1,781,792) respectively. Among the five development regions, Central development region has the highest population ( 36.45 percent) and far western region records the lowest ( 9.63 percent).

3.      Source of drinking water:

a.   Tap/Piped water is the main source of drinking water for 47.78 percent of the total households.

b.   Tube well/hand pump is the main source of drinking water for about 35 percent of the total households,

c.   While spout, uncovered well/kuwa and covered well/kuwa are the main source for 5.74 percent, 4.71 percent and 2.45 percent respectively.

 4.   Usual fuel for cooking:

About two-third of the total households (about 64 percent) use Firewood as usual source of fuel for cooking It followed by LPG (21.03 percent), cow dung (10.38 percent). Bio-gas and Kerosene is used for cooking by 2.43 and 1.03 percent of the total households respectively. Very few households (0.08 percent) use Electricity as usual fuel for cooking. In urban areas, more than two third (67.68 percent) of the total households use LPG as their usual fuel for cooking.

 5. Source of lighting: More than two third (67.26 percent) of the total household’s main source of lighting is electricity. Kerosene is used by 18.28 percent of the total households for lighting while solar and bio-gas is source of light for 7.44 and 0.28 percent of the total households respectively.

6.     Sex Ratio: Sex ratio (number of males per 100 females) at the national level has decreased from 99.8 in 2001 to 94.2 in 2011. In abstract number, there are 796,422 more females than males in the country. Sex ratio is highest (127) in Manang district and lowest (76) in Gulmi district.

7.      Population Growth in Districts: The fastest decadal population growth rate is found in Kathmandu district (61.23 percent), and least in Manang ( -31.80 percent ). Altogether 27 districts including Manang, Khotang, Mustang, Terhathum, Bhojpur etc. recorded negative population growth rate during the last decade.

8.      Caste/Ethnicity: There are 125 caste/ethnic groups reported in the census 2011. Chhetri is the largest caste/ethnic groups having 16.6% (4,398,053) of the total population followed by Brahman-Hill (12.2% ; 3,226,903), Magar (7.1% ; 1,887,733), Tharu (6.6% ; 1,737,470), Tamang (5.8% ; 1,539,830), Newar (5.0% ; 1,321,933), Kami (4.8% ; 1,258,554), Musalman (4.4% ; 1,164,255), Yadav (4.0% ; 1,054,458) and Rai (2.3% ; 620,004).

9.   Mother Tongue: There are 123 languages spoken as mother tongue reported in census 2011. Nepali is spoken as mother tongue by 44.6 percent (11,826,953) of the total population followed by Maithili (11.7% 3,092,530), Bhojpuri (6.0%; 1,584,958), Tharu (5.8%; 1,529,875), Tamang (5.1%; 1,353,311), Newar (3.2%; 846,557), Bajjika (3.0%; 793,418), Magar (3.0%; 788,530), Doteli (3.0%; 787,827), Urdu (2.6%; 691,546).

10.  Religion: There are ten types of religion categories reported in the census. Hinduism is followed by 81.3 percent (21,551,492) of the population while Buddhism (9.0%; 2,396,099), Islam (4.4%; 1,162,370), , Kirat (3.1%; 807,169), Christianity (1.4%; 375,699), Prakriti (0.5%; 121,982), Bon (13,006), Jainism (3,214), Bahai (1,283) and Sikhism (609).

11.  Disability: About two percent (1.94%; 513,321) of the total population reported to have some kind of disability. Physical disability constitutes 36.3 percent of the population with disability followed by Blindness/Low Vision (18.5%), Deaf/Hard to hearing (15.4%), Speech problem (11.5%), Multiple Disability (7.5%), Mental Disability (6%), Intellectual Disability (2.9%) and Deaf-Blind (1.8%).

12.  Literacy Rate: Overall literacy rate (for population aged 5 years and above) has increased from 54.1 percent in 2001 to 65.9 percent in 2011. Male literacy rate is 75.1% compared to female literacy rate of 57.4%. The highest literacy rate is reported in Kathmandu district (86.3 %) and lowest in Rautahat (41.7%)

13.  Inter-censal population changes:

(1911 – 2011 A.D.) Census year	Population	Inter-censal changes	Inter-censal changes(%)	Annual exponential growth rate (%)
1911	5,638,749	-	-	-
1920	5,573,788	-64,961	-1.15	-0.13
1930	5,532,574	-41,214	-0.74	-0.07
1941	6,283,649	751,075	13.58	1.16
1952/54	8,256,625	1,972,976	31.40	2.27
1961	9,412,996	1,156,371	14.01	1.64
1971	11,555,983	2,142,987	22.77	2.05
1981	15,022,839	3,466,856	30.00	2.62
1991	18,491,097	3,468,258	23.09	2.08
2001	23,151,423	4,660,326	25.20	2.25
2011	26,494,504	3,343,081	14.44	1.35

(All these data are taken from www.cbs.gov)