Gaidahawa Rural Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Gaidahawa is a Rural Municipality, which is located in Rupandehi district, Province No. 5 of Nepal. Gaidahawa has total 9 wards, which are scattered across 97 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Gaidahawa Rural Municipality had total population of 47,565.

As of 2011, 2,183 population in Gaidahawa Rural Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 4.59 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 2,093, which equals to 8.82 percent of total 23,730 males. Same as, 90 females were absent, which equals to 0.38 percent of 23,835 females. At least one member of 1,698 (23.31 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 20.79, while male to female absentee population ratio was 23.26. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 3.29.

In terms of age, the largest population in Gaidahawa Rural Municipality were between 10 and 14 years of age with total 6,806. Gender wise, there were 3,519 males and 3,287 females of the same age group. The least populated age group was above 75 with total 678 population, which consistes of 378 males and 300 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 10 and 14 (6,806), between 5 and 9 (6,641), between 15 and 19 (5,426), below 4 (5,326), between 20 and 24 (3,886) with total population of 28,085. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were above 75 (678), between 70 and 74 (724), between 65 and 69 (1,021), between 60 and 64 (1,383), and between 55 and 59 (1,387) with total population of 5,193. The median age-group of total population falls between 35 and 39 and between 40 and 44 with average population of 2,289.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (3,519), between 5 and 9 (3,376), between 15 and 19 (2,830), below 4 (2,722), and between 20 and 24 (1,793), with total population of 14,240. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (378), between 70 and 74 (382), between 65 and 69 (587),between 60 and 64 (671), and between 55 and 59 (720), with total population of 2,738. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 10 and 14 (3,287), between 5 and 9 (3,265), below 4 (2,604), between 15 and 19 (2,596), and between 20 and 24 (2,093), with total population of 13,845. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (300), between 70 and 74 (342), between 65 and 69 (434),between 55 and 59 (667), and between 60 and 64 (712), with total population of 2,455.

The population with age-group 65 to 69 had male to female ratio of 1.35, 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 0.80. The age-groups 65 to 69, above 75, 70 to 74, 15 to 19, 55 to 59, 10 to 14, 45 to 49, below 4, 5 to 9, 50 to 54 had majority of male population while age-groups 40 to 44, 60 to 64, 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 had eqivalent or almost equal numbers of male and female population with male-female ratios of 1.

The population pyramid for Gaidahawa 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 Gaidahawa Rural Municipality as per 2011 population census was 1.00 with 49.89% (23,730) of males and 50.11% (23,835) of females.

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There were 55.44 % (26,369 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 39.47 % with total number of 18,773. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 5.09 % with total number of 2,423. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 44.56 with total number of 21,196

There were 11,460 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 5,326. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 465 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 11,360 in Gaidahawa Rural Municipality with 5,742 (50.55%) of males and 5,618 (49.45%) females. There were total 36 schools. In average, 316 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 Gaidahawa is Bhojpuri, which is spoken by 21,650 people. The Gaidahawa has people who speak other languages, such as Avadhi, Nepali, Urdu, Maithili, Tharu, Newar, Magar, Doteli, Rai, Sherpa, Gurung, Tamang, etc.

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Out of total population, 10,670 female speaks Bhojpuri language, while 10,980 male speaks Bhojpuri 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), Gaidahawa Rural Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Yadav caste with total population of 5,391. There were as little as Sonar caste with population of as little as 14 in total. People of several other castes who live in Gaidahawa are Muslim, Lodh, Kahar, Tharu, Dusadh/Pasawan/Pasi, Kewat, Chamar/Harijan/Ram, Magar, Dhobi, Kurmi, Brahmin - Hill, Teli, Kami, Mallaha, Chhetri, Terai Others, Baraee, Kalwar, Kumal, Haluwai, Hajam/Thakur, Lohar, Musahar, Kathbaniyan, Damai/Dholi, Brahmin - Tarai, Newar, Badhaee, Rajput, Koiri/Kushwaha, Gaderi/Bhedhar, Sarki, Marwadi, Gurung, Sudhi, Mali, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Thakuri, Dhandi, Rajbhar, Dhunia, Pattharkatta/Kushwadiya, Majhi, Rai, Sherpa, Bangali, Tamang, Kayastha, Thakali, Yakkha, Sonar, 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 Gaidahawa Rural Municipality are Yadav (5,391), Muslim (5,216), Lodh (4,320), Kahar (2,939) and Tharu (2,718) with total population of 20,584, which forms 43.28 percent out of total population of 47,565 in Gaidahawa Rural Municipality.

Out of total population of 47,565, there were total 459 (0.96%) disabled persons in Gaidahawa Rural Municipality with 283 (61.66%) males and 176 (38.34%) females. The physically disabled persons were 179, while mentally disabled people were 42 and intellectually disabled were 7.

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Similarly, there were 87 people who were blind and 47 people were deaf, while 6 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 56 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 35 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 7285 households in Gaidahawa Rural Municipality, there were 2,641 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 1,932 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 160 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 1,721houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 2,681 houses were mud bonded, 2,192 houses were cement bonded, 59 houses were wood planks bonded, 778 houses were bamboo bonded and 290 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 1,300 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 390 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 2,135 houses had roof of tile, 3,332 houses had RCC roofs, 12 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, 6,391 out of 7,285 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 541 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 287 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Gaidahawa Rural Municipality, there were total 563 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 6,595 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 8 houses had covered well while 13 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (6) and river stream (0), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 3,294 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 94 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 158 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (3,558), bio-gas (106), fuel electricity (0), etc.

Same as, total 4,074 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 3,085, while 45 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 0.56.

out of 7,285 households in Gaidahawa Rural Municipality, 395 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 6,776 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 6,385, while MobilePhone was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 4,113.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 1,181 establishments in Gaidahawa Rural Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 2,558 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 1,895 and female engagement of 663 persons.In every business, there were an average of 2.17 people engaged with average males are 1.60 and females are 0.56. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 2.86, which means as many as 2.86 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 74.08 percent while the females are 25.92 percent.

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