Gaidakot Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Gaidakot is a Municipality, which is located in Nawalparasi_E district, Gandaki Province of Nepal. Gaidakot has total 18 wards, which are scattered across 160 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Gaidakot Municipality had total population of 58,836.

As of 2011, 6,622 population in Gaidakot Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 11.26 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 5,591, which equals to 19.82 percent of total 28,209 males. Same as, 1,031 females were absent, which equals to 3.37 percent of 30,632 females. At least one member of 4,706 (34.54 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 7.88, while male to female absentee population ratio was 5.42. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 1.89.

In terms of age, the largest population in Gaidakot Municipality were between 10 and 14 years of age with total 7,557. However, gender wise largest population age group differs from the total population, such as largest male population falls between 10 and 14 with total 3,994 while female population falls between 15 and 19 with total 3,600 population. The least populated age group was between 70 and 74 with total 914 population, which consistes of 445 males and 469 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 10 and 14 (7,557), between 15 and 19 (7,196), between 20 and 24 (5,914), between 5 and 9 (5,834), between 25 and 29 (4,985) with total population of 31,486. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were between 70 and 74 (914), between 65 and 69 (1,233), above 75 (1,285), between 60 and 64 (1,454), and between 55 and 59 (1,774) with total population of 6,660. The median age-group of total population falls between 35 and 39 and between 40 and 44 with average population of 3,532.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (3,994), between 15 and 19 (3,596), between 5 and 9 (3,121), between 20 and 24 (2,605), and below 4 (2,285), with total population of 15,601. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (445), above 75 (599), between 65 and 69 (606),between 60 and 64 (729), and between 55 and 59 (892), with total population of 3,271. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 15 and 19 (3,600), between 10 and 14 (3,563), between 20 and 24 (3,309), between 25 and 29 (3,013), and between 5 and 9 (2,713), with total population of 16,198. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were between 70 and 74 (469), between 65 and 69 (627), above 75 (686),between 60 and 64 (725), and between 55 and 59 (882), with total population of 3,389.

The population with age-group 5 to 9 had male to female ratio of 1.15, 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 0.65. The age-groups 5 to 9, below 4, 10 to 14, 55 to 59, 60 to 64 had majority of male population while age-groups 50 to 54, 65 to 69, 70 to 74, 45 to 49, 40 to 44, above 75, 20 to 24, 35 to 39, 30 to 34, 25 to 29 had majority of female population as per male-female ratios. Moreover, age-groups 15 to 19 had eqivalent or almost equal numbers of male and female population with male-female ratios of 1.

The population pyramid for Gaidakot 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 Gaidakot Municipality as per 2011 population census was 0.92 with 47.95% (28,209) of males and 52.06% (30,632) of females.

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There were 64.12 % (37,723 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 30.06 % with total number of 17,686. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 5.83 % with total number of 3,432. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 35.89 with total number of 21,118

There were 17,767 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 4,295. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 242 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 5,050 in Gaidakot Municipality with 2,398 (47.49%) of males and 2,652 (52.51%) females. There were total 50 schools. In average, 101 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 Gaidakot is Nepali, which is spoken by 44,994 people. The Gaidakot has people who speak other languages, such as Magar, Tharu, Gurung, Newar, Bhojpuri, Tamang, Bhujel, Maithili, Hindi, Bote, Darai, Urdu, Majhi, Kumal, Rai, Sanskrit, Uranw/Urau, Chepang, etc.

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Out of total population, 23,637 female speaks Nepali language, while 21,357 male speaks Nepali 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), Gaidakot Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Brahmin - Hill caste with total population of 24,285. There were as little as Danuwar caste with population of as little as 14 in total. People of several other castes who live in Gaidakot are Magar, Chhetri, Kami, Tharu, Gurung, Newar, Damai/Dholi, Kumal, Tamang, Thakuri, Dalit Others, Darai, Gharti/Bhujel, Bote, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Sarki, Rai, Muslim, Sunuwar, Kurmi, Badi, Terai Others, Majhi, Hajam/Thakur, Chepang/Praja, Yadav, Teli, Limbu, Thakali, Kathbaniyan, Koiri/Kushwaha, Gaine, Foreigner, Dhanuk, Kalwar, Ghale, Haluwai, Rajbansi, Brahmu/Baramo, Jhangad/Dhagar, Dhimal, Danuwar, 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 Gaidakot Municipality are Brahmin - Hill (24,285), Magar (10,038), Chhetri (5,735), Kami (2,555) and Tharu (2,529) with total population of 45,142, which forms 76.73 percent out of total population of 58,836 in Gaidakot Municipality.

Out of total population of 58,841, there were total 854 (1.45%) disabled persons in Gaidakot Municipality with 475 (55.62%) males and 379 (44.38%) females. The physically disabled persons were 269, while mentally disabled people were 72 and intellectually disabled were 42.

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Similarly, there were 135 people who were blind and 124 people were deaf, while 7 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 126 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 79 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 13623 households in Gaidakot Municipality, there were 2,590 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 6,104 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 2,845 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 1,888houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 1,773 houses were mud bonded, 9,966 houses were cement bonded, 1,071 houses were wood planks bonded, 395 houses were bamboo bonded and 35 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 633 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 7,405 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 395 houses had roof of tile, 4,982 houses had RCC roofs, 20 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, 1,069 out of 13,623 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 9,761 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 2,724 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Gaidakot Municipality, there were total 8,674 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 1,953 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 2,072 houses had covered well while 680 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (43) and river stream (22), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 6,325 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 107 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 6,037 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (11), bio-gas (1,043), fuel electricity (16), etc.

Same as, total 12,549 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 760, while 172 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 0.92.

out of 13,623 households in Gaidakot Municipality, 495 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 12,948 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.MobilePhone was used by the maximum households with total users of 11,661, while Bicycle was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 8,544.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 2,854 establishments in Gaidakot Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 9,937 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 6,044 and female engagement of 3,893 persons.In every business, there were an average of 3.48 people engaged with average males are 2.12 and females are 1.36. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 1.55, which means as many as 1.55 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 60.82 percent while the females are 39.18 percent.

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