District · Bagmati Province
Lalitpur District
ललितपुर जिल्ला
A district of Bagmati Province, made up of 6 local governments.NP0325
Population
551,667
2021590,131 projected for 2023
Households
140,367
20213.93 people each
Area
397 km²
1390 per km²
Literacy
88.1%
20212nd of 77
Population & Demographics
Population, 2021 census
551,667
National Statistics Office
274,536 women, 277,131 men — 49.8% female. 9.0% of Bagmati.
A 2023 projection puts it at 590,131 — 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+ | 3,519 | 2,754 | 6,273 |
| 75-79 | 3,658 | 2,969 | 6,627 |
| 70-74 | 4,661 | 4,240 | 8,901 |
| 65-69 | 7,133 | 6,508 | 13,641 |
| 60-64 | 9,822 | 8,854 | 18,676 |
| 55-59 | 13,082 | 11,423 | 24,505 |
| 50-54 | 16,558 | 15,486 | 32,044 |
| 45-49 | 20,693 | 19,626 | 40,319 |
| 40-44 | 24,164 | 20,087 | 44,251 |
| 35-39 | 25,996 | 22,880 | 48,876 |
| 30-34 | 30,607 | 31,745 | 62,352 |
| 25-29 | 31,651 | 35,809 | 67,460 |
| 20-24 | 27,890 | 33,603 | 61,493 |
| 15-19 | 22,616 | 25,884 | 48,500 |
| 10-14 | 18,172 | 20,458 | 38,630 |
| 5-9 | 16,703 | 18,389 | 35,092 |
| 0-4 | 15,609 | 16,882 | 32,491 |
Education
Literacy rate, 2021 census
88.1%
Population aged 5 and over
11.8 pp above the national figure · 2nd of 77.
93.4% of men, 82.7% of women — a 10.7-point gap.
88.1%
Lalitpur
82.1%
Bagmati
76.2%
Nepal
Lalitpur 88.1%, Bagmati 82.1%, Nepal 76.2%.
Literacy rate, 2021 census. Lalitpur marked in black.
Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status
The census partition behind the rate.
- Can read and write88.1%
- Cannot read or write11.7%
- Can read only0.2%
- Not stated0.0%
521,265 people aged 5 and over. Counts are in the table.
View all 4 categories
| Literacy status | All | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can read and write | 459,140 | 215,472 | 243,668 |
| Cannot read or write | 61,174 | 44,323 | 16,851 |
| Can read only | 938 | 595 | 343 |
| Not stated | 13 | 9 | 4 |
Local governments
6 local governments. By population, 2021 census.
Literacy rate
69.1%–92.3%
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 6 local governments
| Place | Type | Population | Households | Literacy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lalitpur | metropolitan city | 294,098 | 77,159 | 90.0% |
| Mahalaxmi | municipality | 123,116 | 32,106 | 90.0% |
| Godawari | municipality | 97,633 | 24,045 | 83.0% |
| Bagmati | rural municipality | 11,353 | 2,739 | 71.4% |
| Konjyosom | rural municipality | 8,989 | 2,142 | 73.9% |
| Mahankal | rural municipality | 8,122 | 1,939 | 80.1% |
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 →