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Lumbini Sanskritik

लुम्बिनी साँस्कृतिक नगरपालिका

A municipality in Rupandehi District, Lumbini Province, one of 17 local governments there.NP0548304

Population

87,383

2021

Households

13,621

20216.42 people each

Area

112 km²

779 per km²

Literacy

71.1%

2021189th of 276

Population & Demographics

Population nationally

Population, 2021 census

87,383

National Statistics Office

44,219 women, 43,164 men — 50.6% female. 7.8% of Rupandehi.

Literacy rate, 2021 census

71.1%

Population aged 5 and over

5.1 pp below the national figure · 189th of 276.

80.6% of men, 62.1% of women — a 18.5-point gap.

71.1%

Lumbini Sanskritik

81.2%

Rupandehi

78.1%

Lumbini

76.2%

Nepal

Lumbini Sanskritik 71.1%, Rupandehi 81.2%, Lumbini 78.1%, Nepal 76.2%.

Literacy rate, 2021 census. Lumbini Sanskritik marked in black.

Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status

The census partition behind the rate.

  • Can read and write71.1%
  • Cannot read or write28.2%
  • Can read only0.5%
  • Not stated0.1%

77,497 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 write55,13324,47830,655
Cannot read or write21,88614,7277,159
Can read only391192199
Not stated874839

In context

All places

Where Lumbini Sanskritik sits among the 17 local governments of Rupandehi. By population, 2021 census.

Rupandehi by local government
40,880Population · 194,335

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
Rupandehi by local governments, census
PlaceTypePopulationHouseholdsLiteracy
Butwalsub-metropolitan city194,33550,56591.3%
Tilottamamunicipality149,47935,99188.1%
Lumbini Sanskritikmunicipality87,38313,62171.1%
Sainamainamunicipality78,39319,44584.9%
Siddharthanagarmunicipality74,43615,87186.1%
Devdahamunicipality72,45717,30083.1%
Mayadevirural municipality56,1709,99073.0%
Gaidahawarural municipality56,1499,94771.3%
Kotahimairural municipality45,9757,53568.7%
Siyarirural municipality44,9859,01978.8%
Rohinirural municipality43,3277,52672.3%
Sammarimairural municipality43,0447,24269.3%
Kanchanrural municipality42,52810,44083.0%
Suddhodhanrural municipality41,9078,67681.2%
Om Satiyarural municipality41,1418,08278.2%
Marchawarirural municipality40,8806,92168.7%
Lumbini Sanskritikprotected_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 →