District · Bagmati Province
Bhaktapur District
भक्तपुर जिल्ला
A district of Bagmati Province, made up of 4 local governments.NP0326
Population
432,132
2021475,912 projected for 2023
Households
108,503
20213.98 people each
Area
123 km²
3511 per km²
Literacy
88.0%
20213rd of 77
Population & Demographics
Population, 2021 census
432,132
National Statistics Office
213,714 women, 218,418 men — 49.5% female. 7.1% of Bagmati.
A 2023 projection puts it at 475,912 — modelled, not counted.
Age and sex structure
Five-year bands, 2023 projection — a different reference period from the count beside it.
View all 17 age bands
| Age | Female | Male | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 80+ | 2,396 | 1,873 | 4,269 |
| 75-79 | 2,636 | 2,153 | 4,789 |
| 70-74 | 3,250 | 2,735 | 5,985 |
| 65-69 | 5,085 | 4,509 | 9,594 |
| 60-64 | 6,963 | 6,148 | 13,111 |
| 55-59 | 9,825 | 8,437 | 18,262 |
| 50-54 | 12,527 | 11,578 | 24,105 |
| 45-49 | 15,846 | 15,007 | 30,853 |
| 40-44 | 18,725 | 15,576 | 34,301 |
| 35-39 | 20,908 | 19,696 | 40,604 |
| 30-34 | 26,313 | 27,065 | 53,378 |
| 25-29 | 27,269 | 30,608 | 57,877 |
| 20-24 | 22,422 | 26,940 | 49,362 |
| 15-19 | 17,310 | 20,419 | 37,729 |
| 10-14 | 14,293 | 16,607 | 30,900 |
| 5-9 | 13,869 | 16,222 | 30,091 |
| 0-4 | 14,658 | 16,044 | 30,702 |
Education
Literacy rate, 2021 census
88.0%
Population aged 5 and over
11.7 pp above the national figure · 3rd of 77.
94.1% of men, 81.7% of women — a 12.4-point gap.
88.0%
Bhaktapur
82.1%
Bagmati
76.2%
Nepal
Bhaktapur 88.0%, Bagmati 82.1%, Nepal 76.2%.
Literacy rate, 2021 census. Bhaktapur marked in black.
Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status
The census partition behind the rate.
- Can read and write88.0%
- Cannot read or write11.9%
- Can read only0.2%
- Not stated0.0%
404,125 people aged 5 and over. Counts are in the table.
View all 4 categories
| Literacy status | All | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can read and write | 355,473 | 164,110 | 191,363 |
| Cannot read or write | 48,015 | 36,250 | 11,765 |
| Can read only | 633 | 411 | 222 |
| Not stated | 4 | 3 | 1 |
Local governments
4 local governments. By population, 2021 census.
Literacy rate
83.6%–90.9%
One order throughout, set by population, so a mark out of step ranks differently on that measure. Counts are bars from zero; rates are dots on a trimmed axis, because a rate is not additive and its spread matters more than its distance from nothing.
View all 4 local governments
| Place | Type | Population | Households | Literacy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suryabinayak | municipality | 140,085 | 35,865 | 88.6% |
| Madhyapur Thimi | municipality | 119,756 | 31,966 | 90.2% |
| Changunarayan | municipality | 88,083 | 21,588 | 84.3% |
| Bhaktapur | municipality | 79,136 | 18,987 | 86.9% |
Sources and coverage
- Nepal — Subnational Population StatisticsUnited Nations Population Fundcc-by-igo-3.0
- Nepal — National Population and Housing Census 2021National Statistics Officenso-official-statistics
Measures such as gdp per capita, life expectancy at birth, and under-5 mortality rate are published for Nepal as a whole and are not broken down to this level by their source, so they have no section here. All indicators and their coverage →