Municipality · Salyan District
Sharada
शारदा नगरपालिका
A municipality in Salyan District, Karnali Province, one of 10 local governments there.NP0653303
Population
34,663
2021
Households
8,898
20213.90 people each
Area
198 km²
175 per km²
Literacy
80.0%
202188th of 276
Population & Demographics
Population, 2021 census
34,663
National Statistics Office
18,275 women, 16,388 men — 52.7% female. 14.5% of Salyan.
Education
Literacy rate, 2021 census
80.0%
Population aged 5 and over
3.7 pp above the national figure · 88th of 276.
88.5% of men, 72.5% of women — a 15.9-point gap.
80.0%
Sharada
77.3%
Salyan
76.1%
Karnali
76.2%
Nepal
Sharada 80.0%, Salyan 77.3%, Karnali 76.1%, Nepal 76.2%.
Literacy rate, 2021 census. Sharada marked in black.
Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status
The census partition behind the rate.
- Can read and write80.0%
- Cannot read or write19.5%
- Can read only0.4%
- Not stated0.1%
31,457 people aged 5 and over. Counts are in the table.
View all 4 categories
| Literacy status | All | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can read and write | 25,153 | 12,175 | 12,978 |
| Cannot read or write | 6,149 | 4,497 | 1,652 |
| Can read only | 130 | 102 | 28 |
| Not stated | 25 | 11 | 14 |
In context
Where Sharada sits among the 10 local governments of Salyan. By population, 2021 census.
Population
Households
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
| Place | Type | Population | Households | Literacy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sharada | municipality | 34,663 | 8,898 | 80.0% |
| Bagachour | municipality | 34,021 | 7,498 | 79.8% |
| Banagad Kupinde | municipality | 32,940 | 7,428 | 70.5% |
| Kumakh | rural municipality | 24,859 | 5,491 | 75.0% |
| Kalimati | rural municipality | 22,206 | 4,972 | 77.6% |
| Chhatreshwori | rural municipality | 21,242 | 5,139 | 77.7% |
| Darma | rural municipality | 20,139 | 4,264 | 77.2% |
| Kapurkot | rural municipality | 17,526 | 3,974 | 79.8% |
| Tribeni | rural municipality | 16,664 | 4,110 | 78.6% |
| Siddha Kumakh | rural municipality | 13,127 | 2,898 | 77.3% |
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 →