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Rural Municipality · Rupandehi District

Sammarimai

सम्मरीमाई गाउँपालिका

A rural municipality in Rupandehi District, Lumbini Province, one of 17 local governments there.NP0548409

Population

43,044

2021

Households

7,242

20215.94 people each

Area

51 km²

847 per km²

Literacy

69.3%

2021310th of 460

Population & Demographics

Population nationally

Population, 2021 census

43,044

National Statistics Office

21,533 women, 21,511 men — 50.0% female. 3.8% of Rupandehi.

Literacy rate, 2021 census

69.3%

Population aged 5 and over

6.9 pp below the national figure · 310th of 460.

78.0% of men, 60.7% of women — a 17.3-point gap.

69.3%

Sammarimai

81.2%

Rupandehi

78.1%

Lumbini

76.2%

Nepal

Sammarimai 69.3%, Rupandehi 81.2%, Lumbini 78.1%, Nepal 76.2%.

Literacy rate, 2021 census. Sammarimai marked in black.

Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status

The census partition behind the rate.

  • Can read and write69.3%
  • Cannot read or write30.2%
  • Can read only0.3%
  • Not stated0.1%

38,543 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 write26,72411,75314,971
Cannot read or write11,6577,5214,136
Can read only1116150
Not stated511833

In context

All places

Where Sammarimai 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 →