Municipality · Bhaktapur District
Bhaktapur
भक्तपुर नगरपालिका
A municipality in Bhaktapur District, Bagmati Province, one of 4 local governments there.NP0326303
Population
79,136
2021
Households
18,987
20214.17 people each
Area
7 km²
12073 per km²
Literacy
86.9%
202116th of 276
Population & Demographics
Population, 2021 census
79,136
National Statistics Office
39,381 women, 39,755 men — 49.8% female. 18.3% of Bhaktapur.
Education
Literacy rate, 2021 census
86.9%
Population aged 5 and over
10.7 pp above the national figure · 16th of 276.
93.3% of men, 80.6% of women — a 12.7-point gap.
86.9%
Bhaktapur
88.0%
Bhaktapur
82.1%
Bagmati
76.2%
Nepal
Bhaktapur 86.9%, 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 write86.9%
- Cannot read or write12.9%
- Can read only0.1%
- Not stated0.0%
74,188 people aged 5 and over. Counts are in the table.
View all 4 categories
| Literacy status | All | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can read and write | 64,503 | 29,891 | 34,612 |
| Cannot read or write | 9,585 | 7,141 | 2,444 |
| Can read only | 99 | 58 | 41 |
| Not stated | 1 | 0 | 1 |
In context
Where Bhaktapur sits among the 4 local governments of Bhaktapur. 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 →