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Province

Bagmati Province

बागमती प्रदेश

13 districts · 119 local governments · P-code NP03
Population
6.1M
2021 census · NSO
Area
20,297
km²
Density
301
people per km²
Share of Nepal
21.0%
by population
Working age
73%
aged 15–64

Population & Demographics

How many people live in Nepal, where, and how the population is structured by age and sex. All Population & Demographics indicators →

Householdsघरपरिवार

Number of households enumerated. An institutional facility counts as one household.

2021 census

1,570,927
Households
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Populationजनसंख्या

Resident population. Figures for years after the last census are projections, not counts.

2021 census

6,116,866
Persons
6,487,756 · 2023 projection
female 3,068,182male 3,048,684

2 indicators published for Bagmati under population & demographics.

Education

Literacy, schooling and educational attainment. All Education indicators →

Literacy rateसाक्षरता दर

Share of the population aged 5 and over who can read and write. The denominator is the 5-plus population, not the total population.

2021 census · not additive across places

82.1%
female 76.0%male 88.3%
12.3 points higher for men
Literate populationसाक्षर जनसंख्या

People aged 5 and over who can read and write.

2021 census

4,692,353
Persons
female 2,188,274male 2,504,079
Population aged 5 and over५ वर्ष र माथिको जनसंख्या

The denominator for literacy. Published because a rate without its base cannot be recomputed or aggregated.

2021 census

5,718,388
Persons
female 2,881,047male 2,837,341

3 indicators published for Bagmati under education.

Age and sex structure

Five-year age bands from the UNFPA 2023 projection, the only source that publishes age detail at this level. Both sides share one scale, so bar lengths are directly comparable.

FemaleMale2023 · hover a band for exact counts
50k50k100k100k150k150k38,51880+32,93740,93075-7936,48055,11270-7450,97081,76865-6976,543111,19460-64101,266141,55655-59121,148174,15650-54154,348204,89445-49186,258234,71540-44190,622261,19335-39234,547319,12830-34321,635344,57625-29379,905314,42820-24358,479272,40715-19302,434229,21210-14249,677212,1725-9230,676205,5660-4218,306
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AgeFemaleMaleTotal
80+38,51832,93771,455
75-7940,93036,48077,410
70-7455,11250,970106,082
65-6981,76876,543158,311
60-64111,194101,266212,460
55-59141,556121,148262,704
50-54174,156154,348328,504
45-49204,894186,258391,152
40-44234,715190,622425,337
35-39261,193234,547495,740
30-34319,128321,635640,763
25-29344,576379,905724,481
20-24314,428358,479672,907
15-19272,407302,434574,841
10-14229,212249,677478,889
5-9212,172230,676442,848
0-4205,566218,306423,872

Districts by population

13 districts, 2021. The map answers where; the ranking answers how much.

Kathmandu — 2,041,587Chitawan — 719,859Lalitpur — 551,667Makwanpur — 466,073Bhaktapur — 432,132Kavrepalanchok — 364,039Dhading — 325,710Sindhuli — 300,026Nuwakot — 263,391Sindhupalchok — 262,624Dolakha — 172,767Ramechhap — 170,302Rasuwa — 46,689SindhuliDolakhaMakwanpurChitawanRamechhapDhadingSindhupalchokRasuwaKavrepalanchokNuwakotKathmanduLalitpurBhaktapur
47k173k300k364k552k2.0M

Population, 2021 · five classes, each holding about 3 of 13 areas · 13 of 13 named on the map.

View data table
Population by district, Bagmati
AreaPopulation
Kathmandu2,041,587
Chitawan719,859
Lalitpur551,667
Makwanpur466,073
Bhaktapur432,132
Kavrepalanchok364,039
Dhading325,710
Sindhuli300,026
Nuwakot263,391
Sindhupalchok262,624
Dolakha172,767
Ramechhap170,302
Rasuwa46,689

Not yet covered

Architecturally supported, no provincial data published yet.

Economy · Government & budgets · Elections · Education · Health · Agriculture · Infrastructure. See topics for what is available now.

Compare the districts of Bagmati

Every published census measure, side by side. Rank by any column, or select rows to compare a few.

13 districts · tick rows to pin and compare
districts compared on Population, Households, Literacy rate, Literate population, Population aged 5 and over, ranked by Population
districts
Kathmandu2,041,587544,86789.2%1,718,6721,926,174
Chitawan719,859179,34583.7%560,119669,392
Lalitpur551,667140,36788.1%459,140521,265
Makwanpur466,073105,79277.8%334,161429,414
Bhaktapur432,132108,50388.0%355,473404,125
Kavrepalanchok364,03991,42875.7%256,899339,440
Dhading325,71083,64272.4%218,424301,687
Sindhuli300,02669,36472.6%200,269275,899
Nuwakot263,39168,67969.1%168,798244,383
Sindhupalchok262,62471,77368.0%165,854243,758
Dolakha172,76749,53872.3%116,312160,858
Ramechhap170,30246,48968.1%108,500159,274
Rasuwa46,68911,14069.6%29,73242,719

Bars are scaled within each column, so columns compare places and rows compare measures. A dash means the figure is not published for that place, which is not the same as zero. Rates are not additive across places and are never totalled.

Sources & methodology

UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (2024) · United Nations Population Fund (2023) · National Statistics Office (2021) · Wikidata (2026) · World Bank (1960-2024)

Reusable under CC BY-IGO 3.0 and nso-official-statistics and CC0 1.0 and CC BY 4.0 with attribution. Retrieved 2026-08-23. Full metadata, caveats and revision history →

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