29,164,578: Official size of Nepal population as per the 2021 census
The logo of the national population census 2021. Photo: CBS Kathmandu, March 24 After months of delay, the government of Nepal on Friday published the full and final report of the Nepal population census 2021, according to which 29,164,578 is the official population size of Nepal. Last year, a preliminary report was launched , which had put the figure as 29,192,480. But, the final report shows 27,902 fewer people than the previous record. Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal made the report public amid a function organised by the National Statistics Office , the successor of the erstwhile Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), this morning. As per the report, the annual population growth rate of the country is 0.92 per cent whereas the population density per square km is 198. For the first time in Nepal’s history, the Nepal population census 2021 has counted people belonging to other gender groups except for males and females. The report says there are 2,928 people in other sexua...