Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda is a Rural Municipality, which is located in Mustang district, Gandaki Province of Nepal. Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda has total 5 wards, which are scattered across 1344 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality had total population of 1,423.

As of 2011, 309 population in Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 21.71 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 187, which equals to 27.42 percent of total 682 males. Same as, 122 females were absent, which equals to 16.46 percent of 741 females. At least one member of 170 (42.08 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 3.61, while male to female absentee population ratio was 1.53. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 1.38.

In terms of age, the largest population in Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality were between 25 and 29 years of age with total 147. However, gender wise largest population age group differs from the total population, such as largest male population falls between 35 and 39 with total 69 while female population falls between 25 and 29 with total 79 population. The least populated age group was between 10 and 14 with total 20 population, which consistes of 6 males and 14 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 25 and 29 (147), between 35 and 39 (135), between 45 and 49 (126), between 50 and 54 (122), below 4 (115) with total population of 645. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were between 10 and 14 (20), above 75 (24), between 70 and 74 (40), between 15 and 19 (50), and between 65 and 69 (53) with total population of 187. The median age-group of total population falls between 20 and 24 and between 5 and 9 with average population of 105.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 35 and 39 (69), between 25 and 29 (68), between 50 and 54 (63), below 4 (58), and between 30 and 34 (56), with total population of 314. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 10 and 14 (6), above 75 (8), between 70 and 74 (17),between 15 and 19 (18), and between 65 and 69 (32), with total population of 81. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 25 and 29 (79), between 45 and 49 (72), between 35 and 39 (66), between 40 and 44 (62), and between 50 and 54 (59), with total population of 338. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 10 and 14 (14), above 75 (16), between 65 and 69 (21),between 70 and 74 (23), and between 60 and 64 (29), with total population of 103.

The population with age-group 65 to 69 had male to female ratio of 1.52, which states that this age group had maximum males as compared to females. Similarly, age-group 10 to 14 had most female population as compared to male population with male to female ratio of 0.43. The age-groups 65 to 69, 60 to 64, 30 to 34, 50 to 54, 35 to 39, below 4 had majority of male population while age-groups 5 to 9, 20 to 24, 55 to 59, 25 to 29, 40 to 44, 45 to 49, 70 to 74, 15 to 19, above 75, 10 to 14 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 Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda 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 Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality as per 2011 population census was 0.92 with 47.93% (682) of males and 52.07% (741) of females.

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There were 75.12 % (1,069 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 16.65 % with total number of 237. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 8.22 % with total number of 117. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 24.88 with total number of 354

There were 418 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 115. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 275 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 671 in Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality with 316 (47.09%) of males and 355 (52.91%) females. There were total 12 schools. In average, 56 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 Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda is Lhopa, which is spoken by 984 people. The Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda has people who speak other languages, such as Gurung, Nepali, Rai, etc.

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Out of total population, 537 female speaks Lhopa language, while 447 male speaks Lhopa 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), Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Lhopa caste with total population of 571. There were as little as Rai caste with population of as little as 11 in total. People of several other castes who live in Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda are Chhetri, Gurung, Brahmin - Hill, Kulung, Chhantyal/Chhantel, Rai, 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 Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality are Lhopa (571), Chhetri (438), Gurung (332), and Brahmin - Hill (17) with total population of 1,358, which forms 95.43 percent out of total population of 1,423 in Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality.

Out of total population of 1,423, there were total 86 (6.04%) disabled persons in Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality with 37 (43.02%) males and 49 (56.98%) females. The physically disabled persons were 28, while mentally disabled people were 3 and intellectually disabled were 0.

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Similarly, there were 13 people who were blind and 25 people were deaf, while 2 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 13 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 2 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 404 households in Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality, there were 399 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 1 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 0 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 0houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 218 houses were mud bonded, 1 houses were cement bonded, 0 houses were wood planks bonded, 0 houses were bamboo bonded and 181 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 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 5 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 0 houses had roof of tile, 0 houses had RCC roofs, 0 houses had roof of woods while 394 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, 185 out of 404 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 31 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 185 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality, there were total 345 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 0 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 0 houses had covered well while 0 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (26) and river stream (30), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 66 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 4 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 4 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (326), bio-gas (0), fuel electricity (0), etc.

Same as, total 77 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 15, while 304 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 0.19.

out of 404 households in Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality, 62 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 340 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.OtherVehicle was used by the maximum households with total users of 280, while Radio was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 191.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 87 establishments in Lo Ghekar Damodarkunda Rural Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 234 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 123 and female engagement of 111 persons.In every business, there were an average of 2.69 people engaged with average males are 1.41 and females are 1.28. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 1.11, which means as many as 1.11 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 52.56 percent while the females are 47.44 percent.

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