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Nepal

Peoples with official figures for Nepal on this site: 16. Type of data: national and/or ethnic group, UN, mother tongue.

16
peoples with data
2021
years of data

Peoples of the country

The list is not complete: not every people is in our catalogue yet, and the country's statistics may count groups we do not list.

Nepali (Khas-Arya)census 2021 · mother tongue · «Nepali» · [1]
13,084,457
Magarscensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Magar» · [2]
2,013,498
Tamang peoplecensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Tamang» · [2]
1,639,866
Newar peoplecensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Newari» · [2]
1,341,363
Rai peoplecensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Rai» · [2]
640,674
Gurung peoplecensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Gurung» · [2]
543,790
Limbu peoplecensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Limbu» · [2]
414,704
Rajbongshi peoplecensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Rajbansi» · [2]
132,564
Sherpacensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Sherpa» · [2]
130,637
Chepang peoplecensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Chepang/Praja» · [2]
84,364
Kurukh peoplecensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Oraon/Kudukh» · [2]
46,840
Bengaliscensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Bengali» · [2]
13,800
Chhantyalcensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Chhantyal/Chhantel» · [2]
11,963
Thakalicensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Thakali» · [2]
11,741
Munda peoplecensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Munda» · [2]
3,589
Kusunda peoplecensus 2021 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Kusunda» · [2]
253

Sources

  1. National Statistics Office, Government of Nepal. National Population and Housing Census 2021, Chapter 2: Summary results of Caste/ethnicity, Language and Religion. https://www.lahurnip.org/uploads/resource/file/caste-ethnicity-report-nphc-2021.pdf
  2. United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Nepal, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…