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Rural Municipality · Parsa District

Jagarnathpur

जगरनाथपुर गाउँपालिका

A rural municipality in Parsa District, Madhesh Province, one of 16 local governments there.NP0234405

Population

32,649

2021

Households

5,582

20215.85 people each

Area

45 km²

721 per km²

Literacy

62.7%

2021393rd of 460

Population & Demographics

Population nationally

Population, 2021 census

32,649

National Statistics Office

15,915 women, 16,734 men — 48.7% female. 5.0% of Parsa.

Literacy rate, 2021 census

62.7%

Population aged 5 and over

13.6 pp below the national figure · 393rd of 460.

70.1% of men, 54.9% of women — a 15.1-point gap.

62.7%

Jagarnathpur

69.1%

Parsa

63.5%

Madhesh

76.2%

Nepal

Jagarnathpur 62.7%, Parsa 69.1%, Madhesh 63.5%, Nepal 76.2%.

Literacy rate, 2021 census. Jagarnathpur marked in black.

Population aged 5 and over, by literacy status

The census partition behind the rate.

  • Can read and write62.7%
  • Cannot read or write37.2%
  • Can read only0.1%

29,683 people aged 5 and over. Counts are in the table.

View all 3 categories
Population aged 5 and over by literacy status and sex, 2021
Literacy statusAllFemaleMale
Can read and write18,6037,95310,650
Cannot read or write11,0486,5124,536
Can read only321715

In context

All places

Where Jagarnathpur sits among the 16 local governments of Parsa. By population, 2021 census.

Parsa by local government
17,219Population · 272,382

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. 8 more in the table below.

View all 16 local governments
Parsa by local governments, census
PlaceTypePopulationHouseholdsLiteracy
Birgunjmetropolitan city272,38247,11476.0%
Bahudarmaimunicipality43,4786,95763.4%
Parsagadhimunicipality41,5697,63264.5%
Pokhariyamunicipality37,6756,07664.4%
Sakhuwa Prasaunirural municipality35,3996,29561.8%
Jagarnathpurrural municipality32,6495,58262.7%
Chhipaharmairural municipality29,0824,66362.6%
Paterwa Sugaulirural municipality25,4984,75362.4%
Bindabasinirural municipality24,9913,89266.3%
Kalikamairural municipality23,4803,69766.5%
Jirabhawanirural municipality22,6774,87161.3%
Dhobinirural municipality22,6063,49964.9%
Pakaha Mainpurrural municipality22,5853,53064.4%
Thorirural municipality17,2194,45271.0%
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Chitawanprotected_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 →