Ramdhuni Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Ramdhuni is a Municipality, which is located in Sunsari district, Province No. 1 of Nepal. Ramdhuni has total 9 wards, which are scattered across 92 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Ramdhuni Municipality had total population of 51,752.

As of 2011, 4,024 population in Ramdhuni Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 7.78 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 3,681, which equals to 15.35 percent of total 23,984 males. Same as, 343 females were absent, which equals to 1.24 percent of 27,738 females. At least one member of 3,243 (28.22 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 11.86, while male to female absentee population ratio was 10.73. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 2.54.

In terms of age, the largest population in Ramdhuni Municipality were between 15 and 19 years of age with total 6,298. However, gender wise largest population age group differs from the total population, such as largest male population falls between 10 and 14 with total 3,109 while female population falls between 15 and 19 with total 3,303 population. The least populated age group was between 70 and 74 with total 859 population, which consistes of 412 males and 447 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 15 and 19 (6,298), between 10 and 14 (6,243), between 5 and 9 (4,987), between 20 and 24 (4,671), below 4 (3,938) with total population of 26,137. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were between 70 and 74 (859), above 75 (918), between 65 and 69 (1,225), between 60 and 64 (1,720), and between 55 and 59 (1,869) with total population of 6,591. The median age-group of total population falls between 30 and 34 and between 40 and 44 with average population of 3,257.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (3,109), between 15 and 19 (2,995), between 5 and 9 (2,540), below 4 (1,988), and between 20 and 24 (1,904), with total population of 12,536. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (412), above 75 (426), between 65 and 69 (603),between 60 and 64 (874), and between 55 and 59 (934), with total population of 3,249. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 15 and 19 (3,303), between 10 and 14 (3,134), between 20 and 24 (2,767), between 5 and 9 (2,447), and between 25 and 29 (2,425), with total population of 14,076. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (447), above 75 (492), between 65 and 69 (622),between 60 and 64 (846), and between 55 and 59 (935), with total population of 3,342.

The population with age-group 50 to 54 had male to female ratio of 1.06, 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 0.60. The age-groups 50 to 54, 5 to 9, 60 to 64, below 4 had majority of male population while age-groups 10 to 14, 65 to 69, 70 to 74, 15 to 19, 45 to 49, above 75, 40 to 44, 35 to 39, 20 to 24, 30 to 34, 25 to 29 had majority of female population as per male-female ratios. Moreover, age-groups 55 to 59 had eqivalent or almost equal numbers of male and female population with male-female ratios of 1.

The population pyramid for Ramdhuni 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 Ramdhuni Municipality as per 2011 population census was 0.86 with 46.34% (23,984) of males and 53.60% (27,738) of females.

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There were 64.83 % (33,552 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 29.31 % with total number of 15,168. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 5.80 % with total number of 3,002. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 35.11 with total number of 18,170

There were 15,722 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 3,938. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 250 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 10,789 in Ramdhuni Municipality with 5,306 (49.18%) of males and 5,483 (50.82%) females. There were total 52 schools. In average, 207 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 Ramdhuni is Tharu, which is spoken by 20,540 people. The Ramdhuni has people who speak other languages, such as Nepali, Maithili, Urdu, Rai, Uranw/Urau, Limbu, Newar, Majhi, Bantawa, Magar, Tamang, Bhojpuri, Bhujel, Kulung, Hindi, Sunuwar, Sherpa, Thulung, Sampang, Chamling, Gurung, Bahing, Thami, Yamphu/Yamphe, Bangla, Dumi, Yakkha, Khaling, Wambule, Lapcha, Puma, etc.

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Out of total population, 11,207 female speaks Tharu language, while 9,333 male speaks Tharu 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), Ramdhuni Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Tharu caste with total population of 20,250. There were as little as Yakkha caste with population of as little as 11 in total. People of several other castes who live in Ramdhuni are Chhetri, Brahmin - Hill, Musahar, Rai, Newar, Muslim, Bantar/Sardar, Teli, Kami, Limbu, Jhangad/Dhagar, Dhimal, Majhi, Chamar/Harijan/Ram, Magar, Khawas, Damai/Dholi, Tamang, Haluwai, Hajam/Thakur, Mallaha, Gharti/Bhujel, Kathbaniyan, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Koiri/Kushwaha, Dhanuk, Brahmin - Tarai, Sarki, Khatwe, Bantaba, Gurung, Yadav, Sunuwar, Sherpa, Undefined Others, Sudhi, Badi, Chamling, Terai Others, Lohar, Dom, Mali, Kulung, Baraee, Thakuri, Kayastha, Thulung, Marwadi, Thami, Byasi/Sanka, Rajput, Kumhar, Sonar, Badhaee, Tatma/Tatwa, Bangali, Kumal, Kalwar, Bhote, Samgpang, Gaderi/Bhedhar, Bahing, Lepcha, Kurmi, Dusadh/Pasawan/Pasi, Yakkha, 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 Ramdhuni Municipality are Tharu (20,250), Chhetri (6,671), Brahmin - Hill (5,875), Musahar (2,358) and Rai (1,674) with total population of 36,828, which forms 71.16 percent out of total population of 51,752 in Ramdhuni Municipality.

Out of total population of 51,722, there were total 658 (1.27%) disabled persons in Ramdhuni Municipality with 350 (53.19%) males and 308 (46.81%) females. The physically disabled persons were 245, while mentally disabled people were 48 and intellectually disabled were 23.

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Similarly, there were 90 people who were blind and 84 people were deaf, while 11 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 109 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 48 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 11491 households in Ramdhuni Municipality, there were 245 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 2,048 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 1,304 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 6,910houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 228 houses were mud bonded, 2,611 houses were cement bonded, 703 houses were wood planks bonded, 7,833 houses were bamboo bonded and 8 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 2,055 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 7,757 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 88 houses had roof of tile, 1,483 houses had RCC roofs, 13 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, 5,183 out of 11,491 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 4,245 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 2,018 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Ramdhuni Municipality, there were total 374 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 10,823 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 29 houses had covered well while 93 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (80) and river stream (2), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 7,354 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 65 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 1,723 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (1,623), bio-gas (583), fuel electricity (12), etc.

Same as, total 9,547 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 1,818, while 49 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 0.83.

out of 11,491 households in Ramdhuni Municipality, 795 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 10,648 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.Bicycle was used by the maximum households with total users of 9,081, while MobilePhone was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 7,949.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 1,968 establishments in Ramdhuni Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 6,100 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 3,635 and female engagement of 2,465 persons.In every business, there were an average of 3.10 people engaged with average males are 1.85 and females are 1.25. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 1.47, which means as many as 1.47 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 59.59 percent while the females are 40.41 percent.

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