KATHMANDU. Nepal’s population has reached above 26 million. According to the preliminary report of the National Population Census 2011 released this afternoon by the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) , country population is 2,66,20,809.
The preliminary result shows that the population of male and female is 1,29,27,431 and 1,36,93,378 respectively. Thus sex ratio is 94.41 (male per hundred female) in the current census as compared to 99.80 in the previous census 2001. The female population is 7,65000 more than that of male population.
Population growth rate is found to be 1.4% which is far less than that of previous census of 2001, i.e.2.25%. Average number of member in household also decreased from 5.44 to 4.7.
Total addition in the population of Nepal during last 10 years is recorded as 3.45 millions.
Urban population of the country reaches to 17% of total population and remaining population reside in rural areas.
Terai constitutes highest proportion of population as earlier comprising 50.15% of the total population followed by hilly region i.e. 43.1%. Mountain belt consists only 6.75% of the country population according to the data. Central Development Region records highest population (36.5 %) and Far Western Development Region records the lowest (9.6 %).
Population density of Nepal is estimated 181 per sq.kms. Kathmandu district has the highest density (4408) and Manang (3) has the least according to the report.
National Bureau of Statistics has informed that that the detail report of population Census will be revealed only after one year.