Population Growth Rate in Nepal

Nepal has high population growth rate. The average population growth rate of 1991-2001 is 2.24 percent. The pattern of growth rate is very uneven.  A higher growth rate is noticed in Tarai (2.61%) and Inner Tarai (2.53%) followed by Hill (1.9%) . However, the growth rate of the Mountain is low (1.56%). In the context of district, Manang district has the highest (5.81%) population growth rate that is followed by Kathmandu district (4.71%). The other districts with high population growth rate are kailali (3.89%), Rupandehi (3.05%) and Banke (3.01%). The districts such as Mustang, Bhojpur and Khotang have the lowest population growth rate, that is less than one percent.