Releasing the municipality and rural municipality-level data, the Central Statistics Office (CSO) on Sunday stated that the urban population in Nepal is slightly more than 19.29 million while the rural population is 9.86 million plus.
According to the preliminary results of the National Census-2021, the population of the country is 29,192,480 out of which 1,491,169 are females (51.04%) and 1,42,91,311 are males (48.96%).