Municipality · Jajarkot District
Bheri Malika
भेरीमालिका नगरपालिका
A municipality in Jajarkot District, Karnali Province, one of 7 local governments there.NP0660302
Population
37,892
2021
Households
8,874
20214.27 people each
Area
220 km²
173 per km²
Literacy
75.1%
2021155th of 276
Population & Demographics
Population, 2021 census
37,892
National Statistics Office
19,516 women, 18,376 men — 51.5% female. 20.0% of Jajarkot.
Education
Literacy rate, 2021 census
75.1%
Population aged 5 and over
1.1 pp below the national figure · 155th of 276.
81.6% of men, 69.1% of women — a 12.5-point gap.
75.1%
Bheri Malika
75.5%
Jajarkot
76.1%
Karnali
76.2%
Nepal
Bheri Malika 75.1%, Jajarkot 75.5%, Karnali 76.1%, Nepal 76.2%.
Literacy rate, 2021 census. Bheri Malika marked in black.
Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status
The census partition behind the rate.
- Can read and write75.1%
- Cannot read or write24.5%
- Can read only0.3%
- Not stated0.1%
33,716 people aged 5 and over. Counts are in the table.
View all 4 categories
| Literacy status | All | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can read and write | 25,327 | 12,111 | 13,216 |
| Cannot read or write | 8,250 | 5,328 | 2,922 |
| Can read only | 110 | 64 | 46 |
| Not stated | 29 | 15 | 14 |
In context
Where Bheri Malika sits among the 7 local governments of Jajarkot. By population, 2021 census.
Population
Households
Literacy rate
72.3%–79.3%
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 7 local governments
| Place | Type | Population | Households | Literacy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bheri Malika | municipality | 37,892 | 8,874 | 75.1% |
| Chhedagad | municipality | 37,877 | 7,197 | 75.8% |
| Nalgad | municipality | 28,922 | 5,992 | 73.6% |
| Junichande | rural municipality | 23,771 | 4,296 | 73.0% |
| Kuse | rural municipality | 23,058 | 4,401 | 74.5% |
| Barekot | rural municipality | 22,005 | 3,887 | 78.6% |
| Shivalaya | rural municipality | 14,776 | 2,806 | 78.3% |
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 →