Maiwakhola Rural Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Maiwakhola is a Rural Municipality, which is located in Taplejung district, Province No. 1 of Nepal. Maiwakhola has total 6 wards, which are scattered across 138 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Maiwakhola Rural Municipality had total population of 11,037.

As of 2011, 831 population in Maiwakhola Rural Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 7.53 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 785, which equals to 15.11 percent of total 5,194 males. Same as, 46 females were absent, which equals to 0.79 percent of 5,843 females. At least one member of 629 (28.67 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 12.28, while male to female absentee population ratio was 17.07. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 2.49.

In terms of age, the largest population in Maiwakhola Rural Municipality were between 10 and 14 years of age with total 1,566. Gender wise, there were 807 males and 759 females of the same age group. The least populated age group was between 70 and 74 with total 171 population, which consistes of 93 males and 78 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 10 and 14 (1,566), between 5 and 9 (1,463), between 15 and 19 (1,372), below 4 (1,237), between 20 and 24 (880) with total population of 6,518. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were between 70 and 74 (171), between 65 and 69 (210), above 75 (251), between 60 and 64 (304), and between 55 and 59 (346) with total population of 1,282. The median age-group of total population falls between 30 and 34 and between 50 and 54 with average population of 521.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (807), between 5 and 9 (713), between 15 and 19 (653), below 4 (611), and between 20 and 24 (372), with total population of 3,156. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (93), between 65 and 69 (101), between 60 and 64 (133),above 75 (136), and between 55 and 59 (174), with total population of 637. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 10 and 14 (759), between 5 and 9 (750), between 15 and 19 (719), below 4 (626), and between 20 and 24 (508), with total population of 3,362. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (78), between 65 and 69 (109), above 75 (115),between 60 and 64 (171), and between 55 and 59 (172), with total population of 645.

The population with age-group 70 to 74 had male to female ratio of 1.19, which states that this age group had maximum males as compared to females. Similarly, age-group 25 to 29 had most female population as compared to male population with male to female ratio of 0.56. The age-groups 70 to 74, above 75, 10 to 14, 55 to 59 had majority of male population while age-groups below 4, 5 to 9, 65 to 69, 15 to 19, 40 to 44, 45 to 49, 50 to 54, 30 to 34, 60 to 64, 35 to 39, 20 to 24, 25 to 29 had majority of female population as per male-female ratios. Moreover, age-groups had eqivalent or almost equal numbers of male and female population with male-female ratios of 1.

The population pyramid for Maiwakhola Rural Municipality visually illustrates the male vs. female population based on different age groups. The population data and ratio tables are also available in this link.

As illustrated in the pie-chart, overall ratio of male to female population in Maiwakhola Rural Municipality as per 2011 population census was 0.89 with 47.06% (5,194) of males and 52.94% (5,843) of females.

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There were 55.62 % (6,139 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 38.65 % with total number of 4,266. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 5.73 % with total number of 632. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 44.38 with total number of 4,898

There were 2,793 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 1,237. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 443 children were born per 1,000 women. This number is also roughly used as fertility levels when direct measures of births are not available.

According to Nepal Government records as of 2017, there were total 6,877 in Maiwakhola Rural Municipality with 3,279 (47.68%) of males and 3,598 (52.32%) females. There were total 28 schools. In average, 246 students were studying in each school.

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The pie-chart and graphs above further illustrates the students and schools.

Mostly spoken language in Maiwakhola is Limbu, which is spoken by 4,942 people. The Maiwakhola has people who speak other languages, such as Sherpa, Nepali, Tamang, Magar, Newar, Rai, Gurung, Sanskrit, Sunuwar, Maithili, etc.

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Out of total population, 2,617 female speaks Limbu language, while 2,325 male speaks Limbu language.Details information about languages spoken by male and female groups of population has been illustrated in the table.

According to 2011 census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Maiwakhola Rural Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Limbu caste with total population of 5,074. There were as little as Others caste with population of as little as 19 in total. People of several other castes who live in Maiwakhola are Sherpa, Tamang, Kami, Brahmin - Hill, Chhetri, Magar, Dalit Others, Newar, Gurung, Damai/Dholi, Rai, Sunuwar, Sarki, etc. Only the population of castes with above 1,000 population are illustrated in the table.

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Top five castes of people in Maiwakhola Rural Municipality are Limbu (5,074), Sherpa (3,167), Tamang (1,082), Kami (477) and Brahmin - Hill (278) with total population of 10,078, which forms 91.31 percent out of total population of 11,037 in Maiwakhola Rural Municipality.

Out of total population of 11,037, there were total 307 (2.78%) disabled persons in Maiwakhola Rural Municipality with 198 (64.50%) males and 109 (35.50%) females. The physically disabled persons were 140, while mentally disabled people were 12 and intellectually disabled were 7.

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Similarly, there were 44 people who were blind and 53 people were deaf, while 8 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 19 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 24 people had multiple disabilities.

The pie-chart above illustrate the better picture of disabled population along with genderwise ratios.

Out of total 2194 households in Maiwakhola Rural Municipality, there were 1,949 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 0 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 2 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 219houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 1,881 houses were mud bonded, 7 houses were cement bonded, 38 houses were wood planks bonded, 244 houses were bamboo bonded and 0 houses had unbaked bricks on their outer walls.Rest of the houses were reported of having other types of outer wall, while some of them reported nothing of having the outer wall bonding.

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There were several types of house roofs reported. Total 1,623 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 497 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 9 houses had roof of tile, 7 houses had RCC roofs, 19 houses had roof of woods while 0 houses were reported having roof of mud. As per 2011 CBS census, some of the houses had other types of roofs while some didn't report about the roof structure.

With respect to the toilets, 454 out of 2,194 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 207 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 1,518 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Maiwakhola Rural Municipality, there were total 2,041 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 1 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 2 houses had covered well while 25 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (90) and river stream (8), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 2,173 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 6 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 0 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (0), bio-gas (0), fuel electricity (0), etc.

Same as, total 1,208 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 591, while 363 households used solar energy as source of lights. Total 0 households also reported of using bio-gas as a source of light. The ratio of use of electricity as compared to other source of light was 0.55.

out of 2,194 households in Maiwakhola Rural Municipality, 436 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 1,755 households reported of using at least one facility. Households using at least one facility, such as radio, television, internet, etc. have been illustrated in the table below.Radio was used by the maximum households with total users of 1,505, while MobilePhone was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 1,307.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 310 establishments in Maiwakhola Rural Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 786 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 455 and female engagement of 331 persons.In every business, there were an average of 2.54 people engaged with average males are 1.47 and females are 1.07. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 1.37, which means as many as 1.37 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 57.89 percent while the females are 42.11 percent.

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