Rural Municipality · Dang District
Babai
बबई गाउँपालिका
A rural municipality in Dang District, Lumbini Province, one of 10 local governments there.NP0556401
Population
30,968
2021
Households
7,527
20214.11 people each
Area
257 km²
120 per km²
Literacy
78.0%
2021113th of 460
Population & Demographics
Population, 2021 census
30,968
National Statistics Office
16,522 women, 14,446 men — 53.4% female. 4.6% of Dang.
Education
Literacy rate, 2021 census
78.0%
Population aged 5 and over
1.8 pp above the national figure · 113th of 460.
84.9% of men, 72.1% of women — a 12.8-point gap.
78.0%
Babai
81.4%
Dang
78.1%
Lumbini
76.2%
Nepal
Babai 78.0%, Dang 81.4%, Lumbini 78.1%, Nepal 76.2%.
Literacy rate, 2021 census. Babai marked in black.
Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status
The census partition behind the rate.
- Can read and write78.0%
- Cannot read or write21.7%
- Can read only0.3%
- Not stated0.0%
28,110 people aged 5 and over. Counts are in the table.
View all 4 categories
| Literacy status | All | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can read and write | 21,930 | 10,926 | 11,004 |
| Cannot read or write | 6,094 | 4,179 | 1,915 |
| Can read only | 77 | 43 | 34 |
| Not stated | 9 | 6 | 3 |
In context
Where Babai sits among the 10 local governments of Dang. By population, 2021 census.
Population
Households
Literacy rate
76.0%–83.9%
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. 2 more in the table below.
View all 10 local governments
| Place | Type | Population | Households | Literacy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ghorahi | sub-metropolitan city | 200,530 | 49,761 | 83.0% |
| Tulsipur | sub-metropolitan city | 179,755 | 46,018 | 83.1% |
| Lamahi | municipality | 59,050 | 13,458 | 80.9% |
| Rapti | rural municipality | 52,123 | 11,826 | 79.4% |
| Gadhawa | rural municipality | 45,898 | 9,964 | 77.7% |
| Babai | rural municipality | 30,968 | 7,527 | 78.0% |
| Rajpur | rural municipality | 28,346 | 5,829 | 76.8% |
| Shantinagar | rural municipality | 27,641 | 6,919 | 79.9% |
| Dangisharan | rural municipality | 23,668 | 5,825 | 79.0% |
| Bangalachuli | rural municipality | 22,373 | 5,139 | 77.9% |
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 →