Gharapjhong Rural Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Gharapjhong is a Rural Municipality, which is located in Mustang district, Gandaki Province of Nepal. Gharapjhong has total 5 wards, which are scattered across 316 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Gharapjhong Rural Municipality had total population of 3,029.

As of 2011, 235 population in Gharapjhong Rural Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 7.76 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 160, which equals to 10.04 percent of total 1,594 males. Same as, 75 females were absent, which equals to 5.23 percent of 1,435 females. At least one member of 163 (18.65 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 11.89, while male to female absentee population ratio was 2.13. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 4.36.

In terms of age, the largest population in Gharapjhong Rural Municipality were between 20 and 24 years of age with total 279. However, gender wise largest population age group differs from the total population, such as largest male population falls between 25 and 29 with total 149 while female population falls between 20 and 24 with total 146 population. The least populated age group was above 75 with total 69 population, which consistes of 35 males and 34 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 20 and 24 (279), between 25 and 29 (277), between 15 and 19 (268), between 10 and 14 (252), between 5 and 9 (230) with total population of 1,306. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were above 75 (69), between 70 and 74 (78), between 65 and 69 (99), between 60 and 64 (108), and between 55 and 59 (124) with total population of 478. The median age-group of total population falls between 30 and 34 and below 4 with average population of 213.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 25 and 29 (149), between 20 and 24 (133), between 15 and 19 (133), between 40 and 44 (128), and between 35 and 39 (125), with total population of 668. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (35), between 70 and 74 (37), between 65 and 69 (49),between 60 and 64 (53), and between 55 and 59 (68), with total population of 242. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 20 and 24 (146), between 10 and 14 (142), between 15 and 19 (135), between 25 and 29 (128), and between 5 and 9 (109), with total population of 660. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (34), between 70 and 74 (41), between 65 and 69 (50),between 60 and 64 (55), and between 55 and 59 (56), with total population of 236.

The population with age-group 50 to 54 had male to female ratio of 1.46, 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 0.77. The age-groups 50 to 54, 45 to 49, 40 to 44, below 4, 55 to 59, 35 to 39, 30 to 34, 25 to 29, 5 to 9, above 75 had majority of male population while age-groups 15 to 19, 65 to 69, 60 to 64, 20 to 24, 70 to 74, 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 Gharapjhong 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 Gharapjhong Rural Municipality as per 2011 population census was 1.11 with 52.62% (1,594) of males and 47.38% (1,435) of females.

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There were 69.13 % (2,094 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 22.75 % with total number of 689. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 8.12 % with total number of 246. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 30.87 with total number of 935

There were 780 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 207. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 265 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 391 in Gharapjhong Rural Municipality with 187 (47.83%) of males and 204 (52.17%) females. There were total 10 schools. In average, 39 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 Gharapjhong is Nepali, which is spoken by 1,867 people. The Gharapjhong has people who speak other languages, such as Thakali, Gurung, Magar, Tamang, Sherpa, Belhare, Maithili, Newar, Rai, Bhojpuri, Tharu, etc.

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Out of total population, 853 female speaks Nepali language, while 1,014 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), Gharapjhong Rural Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Thakali caste with total population of 990. There were as little as Thakuri caste with population of as little as 19 in total. People of several other castes who live in Gharapjhong are Kami, Gurung, Magar, Damai/Dholi, Brahmin - Hill, Tamang, Chhetri, Newar, Sherpa, Rai, Sarki, Badi, Tharu, Thakuri, 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 Gharapjhong Rural Municipality are Thakali (990), Kami (401), Gurung (397), Magar (303) and Damai/Dholi (198) with total population of 2,289, which forms 75.57 percent out of total population of 3,029 in Gharapjhong Rural Municipality.

Out of total population of 3,029, there were total 60 (1.98%) disabled persons in Gharapjhong Rural Municipality with 28 (46.67%) males and 32 (53.33%) females. The physically disabled persons were 19, while mentally disabled people were 3 and intellectually disabled were 6.

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Similarly, there were 7 people who were blind and 8 people were deaf, while 2 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 10 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 5 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 874 households in Gharapjhong Rural Municipality, there were 805 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 64 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 1 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 0houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 695 houses were mud bonded, 167 houses were cement bonded, 4 houses were wood planks bonded, 0 houses were bamboo bonded and 1 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 4 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 35 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 4 houses had roof of tile, 5 houses had RCC roofs, 2 houses had roof of woods while 814 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, 198 out of 874 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 640 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 31 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Gharapjhong Rural Municipality, there were total 863 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 1 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 (4) and river stream (2), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 511 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 26 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 321 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (0), bio-gas (0), fuel electricity (11), etc.

Same as, total 862 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 6, while 1 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 0.99.

out of 874 households in Gharapjhong Rural Municipality, 68 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 805 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 775, while Cable_Tv was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 517.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 296 establishments in Gharapjhong Rural Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 1,354 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 877 and female engagement of 477 persons.In every business, there were an average of 4.57 people engaged with average males are 2.96 and females are 1.61. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 1.84, which means as many as 1.84 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 64.77 percent while the females are 35.23 percent.

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