Central Bureaue of Statistics (CBS) on Wednesday January 26 2021, reveals Preliminary results of Population Census 2021 held on November 2021. As per the results Nepal’s population reaches 29192480. Out of which, Male population counts 14291311 and Female 14901169. Nepal’s population was 26494504 as of the Census 2011.

As per CBS the population growth rate of Nepal has decreased from 1.35 during last census to 0.93 percent. Current population growth rate is recorded lowest in the last 80 years says CBS. Kathmandu, Pokhara, Lalitpur, Bharatpur and Birgunj Metropolitan cities top five urban centers with highest population respectively. Kathmandu metrocity counts 865906, the highest and Thulibheri of Dolpa district counts the lowest municipality with a population of 10187. Besides Thulibheri lowest 5 municipalities with least population are Tripurasundari of Dolpa, Madi of Sankhuwasabha, Laligurans of Terhathum and Jiri of Dolakha district.

There are 14 municipalities with population less than 20000. Similarly, 39 municipalities have population more than one lakh. 46 rural municipalities have population less than 10000. While, 15 rural municipalities have population more than 50000.

Baijnathpur of Banke district counts rural municipality with highest population of 70315. While, Narphabhumi rural municipality of Manang district counts lowest rural municipality with population 442.

Nepal’s Paddy production is expected to drop by 8.74 percent in the current fiscal year says Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development. According to a press release by the Ministry Nepal’s paddy production will limit to 5.13 million tonnes in the fiscal year 2078/79. As per the report released by the ministry Sudurpashchim Province faces highest loss in production by 31.49 percent followed by Lumbini Province with a fall of 18.38 percentage. Similarly, Karnali faces a fall of 8.76 percentage, Province 2 will face a fall of paddy production by 3.24 percentage. Province 1 and Bagmati province paddy production is expected to fall by 0.93 and 0.35 percent. Only Gandaki province shows a good sign of increase in production of Paddy by 2.33 percentage.

Looking into the previous five years paddy production data paddy harvest will be the lowest in this fiscal year. In the last fiscal year 2077/78 Paddy production was highest in last five years; 5.61 million tonnes. According to experts decrease in paddy production in the current fiscal year is due to unseasonal heavy rain in the month of October.