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Rural Municipality · Tanahu District

Rhishing

ऋषिङ्ग गाउँपालिका

A rural municipality in Tanahu District, Gandaki Province, one of 10 local governments there.NP0440403

Population

17,918

2021

Households

4,669

20213.84 people each

Area

215 km²

83 per km²

Literacy

71.6%

2021274th of 460

Population & Demographics

Population nationally

Population, 2021 census

17,918

National Statistics Office

9,710 women, 8,208 men — 54.2% female. 5.6% of Tanahu.

Literacy rate, 2021 census

71.6%

Population aged 5 and over

4.7 pp below the national figure · 274th of 460.

80.9% of men, 63.8% of women — a 17.0-point gap.

71.6%

Rhishing

81.6%

Tanahu

81.7%

Gandaki

76.2%

Nepal

Rhishing 71.6%, Tanahu 81.6%, Gandaki 81.7%, Nepal 76.2%.

Literacy rate, 2021 census. Rhishing marked in black.

Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status

The census partition behind the rate.

  • Can read and write71.6%
  • Cannot read or write27.7%
  • Can read only0.5%
  • Not stated0.1%

16,715 people aged 5 and over. Counts are in the table.

View all 4 categories
Population aged 5 and over by literacy status and sex, 2021
Literacy statusAllFemaleMale
Can read and write11,9665,8146,152
Cannot read or write4,6383,2321,406
Can read only905040
Not stated211110

In context

All places

Where Rhishing sits among the 10 local governments of Tanahu. By population, 2021 census.

Tanahu by local government
14,334Population · 78,939

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. 2 more in the table below.

View all 10 local governments
Tanahu by local governments, census
PlaceTypePopulationHouseholdsLiteracy
Byasmunicipality78,93922,58585.3%
Shuklagandakimunicipality55,62015,27286.8%
Bhanumunicipality42,79412,70577.5%
Bhimadmunicipality29,2487,97079.7%
Myagderural municipality23,5786,51582.2%
Aanbu Khairenirural municipality22,2526,13682.1%
Bandipurrural municipality18,5325,20879.5%
Rhishingrural municipality17,9184,66971.6%
Devghatrural municipality14,5843,67075.4%
Ghiringrural municipality14,3343,78373.0%

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 →