Kapilvastu Municipality Profile | Facts & Statistics

Kapilvastu is a Municipality, which is located in Kapilvastu district, Province No. 5 of Nepal. Kapilvastu has total 12 wards, which are scattered across 137 square kilometers of geographical area. According to 2011 Census conducted by Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), Kapilvastu Municipality had total population of 76,394.

As of 2011, 3,925 population in Kapilvastu Municipality were absent from their households, which equals to 5.14 percent of the total population. Absence of males was 3,641, which equals to 9.56 percent of total 38,085 males. Same as, 284 females were absent, which equals to 0.74 percent of 38,309 females. At least one member of 2,782 (23.00 percent) households were absent.

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As illustrated in the charts, the ratio of absentee population was 18.46, while male to female absentee population ratio was 12.82. Same as, the household ratio of present vs. absent population was 3.35.

In terms of age, the largest population in Kapilvastu Municipality were between 10 and 14 years of age with total 10,481. Gender wise, there were 5,412 males and 5,069 females of the same age group. The least populated age group was above 75 with total 958 population, which consistes of 500 males and 458 females. Top 5 most populated age groups were between 10 and 14 (10,481), between 5 and 9 (10,091), between 15 and 19 (8,635), below 4 (8,143), between 20 and 24 (6,337) with total population of 43,687. In contrast, bottom 5 least populated age groups were above 75 (958), between 70 and 74 (1,145), between 65 and 69 (1,591), between 60 and 64 (2,240), and between 55 and 59 (2,267) with total population of 8,201. The median age-group of total population falls between 35 and 39 and between 40 and 44 with average population of 4,103.

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Gender wise, top 5 most age groups male population were between 10 and 14 (5,412), between 5 and 9 (5,253), between 15 and 19 (4,315), below 4 (4,123), and between 20 and 24 (2,856), with total population of 21,959. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (500), between 70 and 74 (649), between 65 and 69 (866),between 60 and 64 (1,130), and between 55 and 59 (1,192), with total population of 4,337. With regards to female population, top 5 age groups females were between 10 and 14 (5,069), between 5 and 9 (4,838), between 15 and 19 (4,320), below 4 (4,020), and between 20 and 24 (3,481), with total population of 21,728. In contrast, bottom 5 least age group male population were above 75 (458), between 70 and 74 (496), between 65 and 69 (725),between 55 and 59 (1,075), and between 60 and 64 (1,110), with total population of 3,864.

The population with age-group 70 to 74 had male to female ratio of 1.31, 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 0.80. The age-groups 70 to 74, 65 to 69, 55 to 59, 5 to 9, above 75, 10 to 14, 45 to 49, 50 to 54, below 4, 60 to 64 had majority of male population while age-groups 40 to 44, 35 to 39, 25 to 29, 20 to 24, 30 to 34 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 Kapilvastu 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 Kapilvastu Municipality as per 2011 population census was 0.99 with 49.85% (38,085) of males and 50.15% (38,309) of females.

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There were 57.58 % (43,985 ) of independent population, the working age people between ages of 15 and 64 years. The dependent children, ages below 15 years, were 37.59 % with total number of 28,715. The dependent elderly population, aged 65 and above were 4.84 % with total number of 3,694. As such, total dependent population including children and elderly people were 42.42 with total number of 32,409

There were 19,203 women of child-bearing age-group of 15 to 49 years. Same as, the todlers or children of 4 years or below were 8,143. The ratio of woman of child-bearing age and the number of todlers state that, approximately 424 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 21,183 in Kapilvastu Municipality with 10,460 (49.38%) of males and 10,723 (50.62%) females. There were total 79 schools. In average, 268 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 Kapilvastu is Avadhi, which is spoken by 48,735 people. The Kapilvastu has people who speak other languages, such as Urdu, Nepali, Tharu, Maithili, Magar, Newar, Bhojpuri, Doteli, Hindi, Uranw/Urau, Gurung, Rai, Yakkha, Punjabi, etc.

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Out of total population, 24,114 female speaks Avadhi language, while 24,621 male speaks Avadhi 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), Kapilvastu Municipality was inhabitted by mostly the people of Muslim caste with total population of 13,934. There were as little as Sonar caste with population of as little as 12 in total. People of several other castes who live in Kapilvastu are Yadav, Brahmin - Hill, Kurmi, Kahar, Tharu, Chamar/Harijan/Ram, Chhetri, Dusadh/Pasawan/Pasi, Kewat, Kathbaniyan, Teli, Kori, Baraee, Dhobi, Hajam/Thakur, Brahmin - Tarai, Dalit Others, Haluwai, Kami, Magar, Terai Others, Badhaee, Sanyasi/Dashnami, Kayastha, Mallaha, Kalwar, Lohar, Dhanuk, Kanu, Newar, Koiri/Kushwaha, Damai/Dholi, Gaderi/Bhedhar, Dhunia, Bangali, Gurung, Thakuri, Rajbhar, Marwadi, Sarki, Foreigner, Gharti/Bhujel, Mali, Badi, Kumal, Dhankar/Kharikar, Lodh, Pattharkatta/Kushwadiya, Dhandi, Majhi, Jhangad/Dhagar, Rajput, Rai, Tamang, Janajati Others, Yakkha, Undefined Others, Kumhar, Musahar, 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 Kapilvastu Municipality are Muslim (13,934), Yadav (8,989), Brahmin - Hill (6,005), Kurmi (5,179) and Kahar (3,719) with total population of 37,826, which forms 49.51 percent out of total population of 76,394 in Kapilvastu Municipality.

Out of total population of 76,394, there were total 792 (1.04%) disabled persons in Kapilvastu Municipality with 471 (59.47%) males and 321 (40.53%) females. The physically disabled persons were 319, while mentally disabled people were 79 and intellectually disabled were 39.

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Similarly, there were 119 people who were blind and 73 people were deaf, while 11 people were both blind and deaf. Moreover, 82 persons had reported of having speech problems. Total 70 people had multiple disabilities.

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

Out of total 12094 households in Kapilvastu Municipality, there were 6,422 houses that were founded on mud bonded while 3,192 houses were cement bonded. Same as, 290 households were reported of being founded on RCC piller, 1,594houses were founded on wood.

With respect to wall of the houses, 6,059 houses were mud bonded, 3,824 houses were cement bonded, 192 houses were wood planks bonded, 973 houses were bamboo bonded and 217 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 2,348 houses were reported of having thatch roofs while 336 houses had galvanized roofs. Similarly, 715 houses had roof of tile, 8,365 houses had RCC roofs, 92 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, 8,463 out of 12,094 houses didn't report of having a private toilet for their households. Nevertheless, 2,702 houses were reported of having flush toilet while 825 houses reported having ordinary toilets.

In Kapilvastu Municipality, there were total 2,212 houses, which were equiped with piped tap water resources while 9,389 houses were reported of having tubewell water facilities. Same as, 20 houses had covered well while 65 houses didn't have any cover on their tubewell. Other resources of water facilities were spout water (44) and river stream (0), which were reported of the household's source of water.

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With reference to source of fuel, 5,782 households reported their source of fuel as firewood while 148 households had kerosene as their fuel source. The LP gas was used by 1,594 households as a source of fuel. Moreover, other sources of fuel were cow dung (4,051), bio-gas (371), fuel electricity (4), etc.

Same as, total 8,123 households had reported of having electricity as the source of their household's lighting. The households still using kerosene as source of light were 3,693, while 38 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 0.67.

out of 12,094 households in Kapilvastu Municipality, 850 houses reported of having no any facility in their household while 10,928 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 9,478, while MobilePhone was the next mostly used facilities with total household users of 7,086.

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According to 2018 Economic Census, there are total 1,986 establishments in Kapilvastu Municipality that are involved in various economic activities. In those establishments, total 5,144 persons are engaged for the economic activities, as a self-employed or an employee, with total male engagement of 3,920 and female engagement of 1,224 persons.In every business, there were an average of 2.59 people engaged with average males are 1.97 and females are 0.62. The ratio of male to female engagement in the establishments are 3.20, which means as many as 3.20 males are enagement in the economic activities per female.

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Similarly, the engagement of males were 76.21 percent while the females are 23.79 percent.

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