Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...

conducted a widespread national census in 2011 by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics. Working in cooperation with the 58

municipalities A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

and the 3,915 Village Development Committees at a district level, they recorded data from all the municipalities and villages of each

district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

. The data included statistics on population size, households, sex and age distribution, place of birth, residence characteristics, literacy, marital status, religion, language spoken, caste/ethnic group, economically active population, education, number of children, employment status, and occupation. *Total population in 2011: 26,494,504Central Bureau of Statistics of Nepal: ''Major Highlights''.
*Increase since last census in 2001: 3,343,081 *Annual population growth rate (exponential growth): 1.35 *Number of households: 5,427,302 * Average Household Size: 4.88 *Population in Mountain: 6.73%, Hill: 43.00% and Terai: 50.27%.

Nepalese caste/ethnic groups

The population wise ranking of 126 Nepalese castes/ethnic groups as per 2011 Nepal census.

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Central Bureau of Statistics

National Population and Housing Census 2011
Censuses in Nepal

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Nepalese caste/ethnic groups

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