population growth rate

Minister Mohan Bahadur Basnet has said that declining population growth rate and fertility rate could be a risk factor for development.

Chitwan district has the third highest population growth rate followed by Bhaktapur and Rupandehi districts in the country.

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.