Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Dudhpokhari is a Rural Municipality, which is located in Lamjung district, Gandaki Province of Nepal. Dudhpokhari has total 6 wards, which are scattered across 155 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality had total population of 10,975.

As of 2011, 1,556 population in Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 14.18 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 1,421, which equals to 28.31 percent of total 5,020 males. Same as, 135 females were absent, which equals to 2.27 percent of 5,955 females. At least one member of 1,100 (42.47 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 6.05, while male to female absentee population ratio was 10.53. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 1.35.

In terms of age, the largest population in Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality were between 10 and 14 years of age with total 1,316. Gender wise, there were 640 males and 676 females of the same age group. The least populated age group was between 65 and 69 with total 373 population, which consistes of 181 males and 192 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 10 and 14 (1,316), between 15 and 19 (1,256), between 5 and 9 (1,036), below 4 (924), between 20 and 24 (814) with total population of 5,346. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were between 65 and 69 (373), between 70 and 74 (377), between 30 and 34 (493), between 35 and 39 (505), and between 55 and 59 (512) with total population of 2,260. The median age-group of total population falls between 45 and 49 and between 40 and 44 with average population of 545.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (640), between 15 and 19 (623), between 5 and 9 (518), below 4 (464), and between 20 and 24 (307), with total population of 2,552. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 30 and 34 (175), between 65 and 69 (181), between 35 and 39 (185),between 70 and 74 (201), and between 40 and 44 (216), with total population of 958. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 10 and 14 (676), between 15 and 19 (633), between 5 and 9 (518), between 20 and 24 (507), and below 4 (460), with total population of 2,794. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (176), between 65 and 69 (192), above 75 (249),between 55 and 59 (254), and between 60 and 64 (284), with total population of 1,155.

The population with age-group 70 to 74 had male to female ratio of 1.14, which states that this age group had maximum males as compared to females. Similarly, age-group 30 to 34 had most female population as compared to male population with male to female ratio of 0.55. The age-groups 70 to 74, above 75, 55 to 59, below 4 had majority of male population while age-groups 15 to 19, 10 to 14, 65 to 69, 50 to 54, 60 to 64, 40 to 44, 45 to 49, 20 to 24, 35 to 39, 25 to 29, 30 to 34 had majority of female population as per male-female ratios. Moreover, age-groups 5 to 9 had eqivalent or almost equal numbers of male and female population with male-female ratios of 1.

The population pyramid for Dudhpokhari 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 Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality as per 2011 population census was 0.84 with 45.74% (5,020) of males and 54.26% (5,955) of females.

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There were 58.58 % (6,429 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 29.85 % with total number of 3,276. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 11.57 % with total number of 1,270. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 41.42 with total number of 4,546

There were 2,825 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 924. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 327 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 2,910 in Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality with 1,383 (47.53%) of males and 1,527 (52.47%) females. There were total 35 schools. In average, 83 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 Dudhpokhari is Gurung, which is spoken by 6,480 people. The Dudhpokhari has people who speak other languages, such as Nepali, Tamang, Magar, Rai, Newar, etc.

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Out of total population, 3,553 female speaks Gurung language, while 2,927 male speaks Gurung 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), Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Gurung caste with total population of 6,613. There were as little as Rai caste with population of as little as 19 in total. People of several other castes who live in Dudhpokhari are Tamang, Brahmin - Hill, Kami, Damai/Dholi, Magar, Gharti/Bhujel, Sarki, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Chhetri, Newar, 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 Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality are Gurung (6,613), Tamang (1,545), Brahmin - Hill (1,057), Kami (636) and Damai/Dholi (270) with total population of 10,121, which forms 92.22 percent out of total population of 10,975 in Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality.

Out of total population of 10,975, there were total 301 (2.74%) disabled persons in Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality with 153 (50.83%) males and 148 (49.17%) females. The physically disabled persons were 72, while mentally disabled people were 10 and intellectually disabled were 15.

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Similarly, there were 49 people who were blind and 95 people were deaf, while 7 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 36 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 17 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 2590 households in Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality, there were 2,535 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 4 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 0 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 41houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 2,504 houses were mud bonded, 16 houses were cement bonded, 26 houses were wood planks bonded, 32 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 376 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 1,037 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 1,126 houses had roof of tile, 2 houses had RCC roofs, 43 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, 1,111 out of 2,590 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 935 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 542 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality, there were total 2,333 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 2 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 15 houses had covered well while 54 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (179) and river stream (5), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 2,507 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 9 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 14 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (1), bio-gas (53), fuel electricity (4), etc.

Same as, total 1,500 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 655, while 427 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 0.58.

out of 2,590 households in Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality, 432 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 2,118 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 1,822, while MobilePhone was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 1,395.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 319 establishments in Dudhpokhari Rural Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 802 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 389 and female engagement of 413 persons.In every business, there were an average of 2.51 people engaged with average males are 1.22 and females are 1.29. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 0.94, which means as many as 0.94 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 48.50 percent while the females are 51.50 percent.

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