Datasets

Source datasets

• Nepal — Subnational Administrative Boundariescod-ab-npl

  Published by

  UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

  Tier B — Authoritative international

  Acquired by DataNepal

  Aggregator download via Humanitarian Data Exchange

  Retrieved 2026-08-23

  Coverage

  2024 · to mixed level

  Updated irregular · publisher revises past values

  Reuse

  cc-by-igo-3.0

  Commercial use: permitted with attribution

  • P-codes are OCHA identifiers, not a Nepali government standard. They are recorded as source identifiers against canonical places rather than used as canonical identity.
  • Models 775 units at admin level 3, of which 22 are protected areas rather than local units. Excluding them gives Nepal's official 753.
  • English names only; the source publishes no Nepali names.
  • Published by OCHA Field Information Services Section; DataNepal obtained this copy via the hdx platform. Attribute the publisher, not the platform.

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• Nepal — Subnational Population Statisticscod-ps-npl

  Published by

  United Nations Population Fund

  Tier B — Authoritative international

  Acquired by DataNepal

  Aggregator download via Humanitarian Data Exchange

  Retrieved 2026-08-23

  Coverage

  2023 · to district level

  Updated annual · publisher revises past values

  Reuse

  cc-by-igo-3.0

  Commercial use: permitted with attribution

  • Figures for 2023 are projections, not census counts. Nepal's most recent census was 2021 (29,164,578). Never present projections as census results.
  • Coverage stops at district level; there is no local-unit breakdown.
  • The open-ended top age band is spelled '80Plus' in current files and '80PL' in others. Ingestion accepts both and asserts the measure count per place.
  • Published by UNFPA; DataNepal obtained this copy via the hdx platform. Attribute the publisher, not the platform.

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• Nepal — National Population and Housing Census 2021nso-nphc-2021

  Published by

  National Statistics Office · राष्ट्रिय तथ्याङ्क कार्यालय

  Tier A — Primary authoritative

  Acquired by DataNepal

  Official download

  Retrieved 2026-08-23

  Coverage

  2021 · to municipality level

  Updated decennial

  Reuse

  nso-official-statistics

  Commercial use: permitted with attribution

  • NSO states "Copyright © National Statistics Office 2023. All rights reserved." and publishes no open-licence grant. Recording this as reusable with attribution is a deliberate DataNepal decision, not a term NSO has offered: these are official state statistics published for public use, only aggregates are republished, and every figure names NSO and links to source. Anyone relying on these figures commercially should confirm terms with NSO.
  • Each district carries an INSTITUTIONAL row for population not resident in a household — barracks, hostels, prisons, hospitals. It is 239,098 people nationally and belongs to no local government. Local-unit figures therefore sum to 28,925,480, not to the national 29,164,578; the difference is carried as residence_type = institutional at district level so the hierarchy still reconciles.
  • The census tables carry no P-codes. Local units are matched to the spine on district, base name and unit type, which resolves 751 of 753 directly with no type disagreements. The remaining two are corrected by an explicit, committed crosswalk (transform/seeds/nso_name_fixes.csv) rather than by fuzzy name matching.
  • Literacy figures cover the population aged 5 and over, not the whole population. Rates computed against total population would understate literacy everywhere by the size of the under-five cohort.
  • NSO spells the sub-metropolitan and metropolitan suffixes "Metropolitian" throughout these files. Ingestion accepts both spellings.
  • This is the 2021 census, an enumeration rather than a projection. It must never be presented interchangeably with the UNFPA 2023 projections also published here.

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• Wikidata — Nepal local unitswikidata-np-places

  Published by

  Wikidata

  Tier D — Secondary

  Acquired by DataNepal

  Official API

  Retrieved 2026-08-23

  Coverage

  2026 · to municipality level

  Updated irregular

  Reuse

  cc0-1.0

  Commercial use: permitted

  • Chosen over OpenStreetMap on licensing grounds, not coverage. OSM carries Nepali names for ~55% of units but is ODbL, whose share-alike terms would propagate to every table this fed.
  • Covers ~66% of local units. Typing is inconsistent: metropolitan cities are often modelled as the city rather than the administrative unit.
  • Community-maintained, so names are not authoritative.

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• World Bank World Development Indicators — Nepalworldbank-npl

  Published by

  World Bank

  Tier B — Authoritative international

  Acquired by DataNepal

  Official API

  Retrieved 2026-08-23

  Coverage

  1960-2024 · to country level

  Updated quarterly · publisher revises past values

  Reuse

  cc-by-4.0

  Commercial use: permitted with attribution

  • The World Bank restates figures as national accounts are revised. The API exposes a lastupdated date per indicator, which is recorded as the publication date of each observation so revisions are traceable.
  • National level only. These are compiled from Nepali official statistics (largely NRB and the National Statistics Office); the World Bank is the aggregator, not the primary collector.
  • Inflation and per-capita figures are rates and ratios. They must never be summed or averaged across places or periods without weighting.

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Published tables

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Revision history: 26,039 rows — download. Every value change is retained with the date it was superseded.