Himali Rural Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Himali is a Rural Municipality, which is located in Bajura district, Sudurpashchim Province of Nepal. Himali has total 7 wards, which are scattered across 830 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Himali Rural Municipality had total population of 9,214.

As of 2011, 161 population in Himali Rural Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 1.75 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 145, which equals to 3.14 percent of total 4,625 males. Same as, 16 females were absent, which equals to 0.35 percent of 4,589 females. At least one member of 136 (7.90 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 56.23, while male to female absentee population ratio was 9.06. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 11.66.

In terms of age, the largest population in Himali Rural Municipality were between 5 and 9 years of age with total 1,365. However, gender wise largest population age group differs from the total population, such as largest male population falls below 4 with total 683 while female population falls between 5 and 9 with total 705 population. The least populated age group was above 75 with total 137 population, which consistes of 59 males and 78 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 5 and 9 (1,365), between 10 and 14 (1,305), below 4 (1,298), between 15 and 19 (899), between 20 and 24 (635) with total population of 5,502. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were above 75 (137), between 70 and 74 (160), between 65 and 69 (166), between 55 and 59 (271), and between 60 and 64 (298) with total population of 1,032. The median age-group of total population falls between 30 and 34 and between 40 and 44 with average population of 457.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were below 4 (683), between 10 and 14 (668), between 5 and 9 (660), between 15 and 19 (449), and between 20 and 24 (311), with total population of 2,771. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (59), between 70 and 74 (73), between 65 and 69 (74),between 60 and 64 (157), and between 55 and 59 (158), with total population of 521. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 5 and 9 (705), between 10 and 14 (637), below 4 (615), between 15 and 19 (450), and between 20 and 24 (324), with total population of 2,731. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (78), between 70 and 74 (87), between 65 and 69 (92),between 55 and 59 (113), and between 60 and 64 (141), with total population of 511.

The population with age-group 55 to 59 had male to female ratio of 1.40, which states that this age group had maximum males as compared to females. Similarly, age-group above 75 had most female population as compared to male population with male to female ratio of 0.76. The age-groups 55 to 59, 45 to 49, 40 to 44, below 4, 60 to 64, 10 to 14 had majority of male population while age-groups 50 to 54, 20 to 24, 5 to 9, 25 to 29, 70 to 74, 30 to 34, 65 to 69, above 75 had majority of female population as per male-female ratios. Moreover, age-groups 15 to 19, 35 to 39 had eqivalent or almost equal numbers of male and female population with male-female ratios of 1.

The population pyramid for Himali 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 Himali Rural Municipality as per 2011 population census was 1.01 with 50.20% (4,625) of males and 49.80% (4,589) of females.

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There were 51.91 % (4,783 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 43.06 % with total number of 3,968. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 5.02 % with total number of 463. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 48.09 with total number of 4,431

There were 1,949 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 1,298. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 666 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 7,150 in Himali Rural Municipality with 3,423 (47.87%) of males and 3,727 (52.13%) females. There were total 24 schools. In average, 298 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 Himali is Nepali, which is spoken by 8,837 people. The Himali has people who speak other languages, such as Sherpa, Tamang, Maithili, etc.

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Out of total population, 4,402 female speaks Nepali language, while 4,435 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), Himali Rural Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Chhetri caste with total population of 5,298. There were as little as Sanyasi/Dashnami caste with population of as little as 13 in total. People of several other castes who live in Himali are Brahmin - Hill, Sarki, Thakuri, Lohar, Bhote, Kami, Damai/Dholi, Dalit Others, Tamang, Teli, Badi, Terai Others, Sanyasi/Dashnami, 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 Himali Rural Municipality are Chhetri (5,298), Brahmin - Hill (1,134), Sarki (869), Thakuri (484) and Lohar (327) with total population of 8,112, which forms 88.04 percent out of total population of 9,214 in Himali Rural Municipality.

Out of total population of 9,214, there were total 416 (4.51%) disabled persons in Himali Rural Municipality with 222 (53.37%) males and 194 (46.63%) females. The physically disabled persons were 109, while mentally disabled people were 13 and intellectually disabled were 14.

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Similarly, there were 117 people who were blind and 101 people were deaf, while 9 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 33 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 20 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 1722 households in Himali Rural Municipality, there were 1,686 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 0 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 1 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 2houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 1,667 houses were mud bonded, 1 houses were cement bonded, 14 houses were wood planks bonded, 0 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 182 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 14 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 798 houses had roof of tile, 5 houses had RCC roofs, 22 houses had roof of woods while 625 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, 1,289 out of 1,722 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 126 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 279 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Himali Rural Municipality, there were total 752 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 0 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 1 houses had covered well while 19 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (855) and river stream (67), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 1,691 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 0 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 0 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (0), bio-gas (3), fuel electricity (0), etc.

Same as, total 147 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 29, while 608 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 0.09.

out of 1,722 households in Himali Rural Municipality, 1,087 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 610 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 396, while Radio was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 392.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 338 establishments in Himali Rural Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 622 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 418 and female engagement of 204 persons.In every business, there were an average of 1.84 people engaged with average males are 1.24 and females are 0.60. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 2.05, which means as many as 2.05 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 67.20 percent while the females are 32.80 percent.

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