District · Lumbini Province
Rupandehi District
रुपन्देही जिल्ला
A district of Lumbini Province, made up of 17 local governments.NP0548
Population
1,121,957
20211,215,020 projected for 2023
Households
238,320
20214.71 people each
Area
1,305 km²
860 per km²
Literacy
81.2%
202118th of 77
Population & Demographics
Population, 2021 census
1,121,957
National Statistics Office
571,479 women, 550,478 men — 50.9% female. 21.9% of Lumbini.
A 2023 projection puts it at 1,215,020 — 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+ | 4,245 | 4,334 | 8,579 |
| 75-79 | 5,134 | 5,535 | 10,669 |
| 70-74 | 9,073 | 9,313 | 18,386 |
| 65-69 | 14,070 | 13,331 | 27,401 |
| 60-64 | 17,850 | 15,863 | 33,713 |
| 55-59 | 22,092 | 18,787 | 40,879 |
| 50-54 | 27,188 | 22,899 | 50,087 |
| 45-49 | 32,826 | 29,630 | 62,456 |
| 40-44 | 40,512 | 31,726 | 72,238 |
| 35-39 | 50,325 | 40,854 | 91,179 |
| 30-34 | 59,939 | 52,588 | 112,527 |
| 25-29 | 65,488 | 63,038 | 128,526 |
| 20-24 | 62,110 | 66,168 | 128,278 |
| 15-19 | 57,335 | 62,234 | 119,569 |
| 10-14 | 51,124 | 55,947 | 107,071 |
| 5-9 | 49,755 | 53,682 | 103,437 |
| 0-4 | 48,657 | 51,368 | 100,025 |
Education
Literacy rate, 2021 census
81.2%
Population aged 5 and over
5.0 pp above the national figure · 18th of 77.
88.4% of men, 74.4% of women — a 13.9-point gap.
81.2%
Rupandehi
78.1%
Lumbini
76.2%
Nepal
Rupandehi 81.2%, Lumbini 78.1%, Nepal 76.2%.
Literacy rate, 2021 census. Rupandehi marked in black.
Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status
The census partition behind the rate.
- Can read and write81.2%
- Cannot read or write18.4%
- Can read only0.3%
- Not stated0.1%
1,030,270 people aged 5 and over. Counts are in the table.
View all 4 categories
| Literacy status | All | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can read and write | 836,866 | 393,309 | 443,557 |
| Cannot read or write | 189,222 | 132,501 | 56,721 |
| Can read only | 3,508 | 2,138 | 1,370 |
| Not stated | 674 | 344 | 330 |
Local governments
17 local governments. 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. 9 more in the table below.
View all 17 local governments
| Place | Type | Population | Households | Literacy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Butwal | sub-metropolitan city | 194,335 | 50,565 | 91.3% |
| Tilottama | municipality | 149,479 | 35,991 | 88.1% |
| Lumbini Sanskritik | municipality | 87,383 | 13,621 | 71.1% |
| Sainamaina | municipality | 78,393 | 19,445 | 84.9% |
| Siddharthanagar | municipality | 74,436 | 15,871 | 86.1% |
| Devdaha | municipality | 72,457 | 17,300 | 83.1% |
| Mayadevi | rural municipality | 56,170 | 9,990 | 73.0% |
| Gaidahawa | rural municipality | 56,149 | 9,947 | 71.3% |
| Kotahimai | rural municipality | 45,975 | 7,535 | 68.7% |
| Siyari | rural municipality | 44,985 | 9,019 | 78.8% |
| Rohini | rural municipality | 43,327 | 7,526 | 72.3% |
| Sammarimai | rural municipality | 43,044 | 7,242 | 69.3% |
| Kanchan | rural municipality | 42,528 | 10,440 | 83.0% |
| Suddhodhan | rural municipality | 41,907 | 8,676 | 81.2% |
| Om Satiya | rural municipality | 41,141 | 8,082 | 78.2% |
| Marchawari | rural municipality | 40,880 | 6,921 | 68.7% |
| Lumbini Sanskritik | protected_area | — | — | — |
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 →