Rasuwa District 'At a Glance'
Himalayan District
Distance From The Capital City of Nepal (Kathmandu) : 118 km.
Geographical Location:
• Administrative Region : Central development region
• Zone : Bagmati
• District : Rasuwa
• District Headquarter : Dhunche
• No of constituency : 1
• No. Ilaka : 9
• No of Village Development committee : 18
• Number of ward : 162
Boundary :
East : Sindhupalchwok
West: Dhading
North: China
South: Nuwakot
Latitude: 28° 0′ 0″ North to 28° 15′ 0″North
Longitude: 85°15′ 0″ East to 85° 15″ 0″ East
Minimum Latitude (From Ocean Level): 314 meter
Maximum Latitude (From Ocean Level): >7134 meter
Latitude of District Headquarter (From Ocean Level): 1950 meter
Area: 1512 Square Kilometer
Area of Langtang National Park: 1710 Square Kilometer
Climatic Division:
a) Arctic or Tundra Himalayan Region
b) Alpine
c) Mountainous & River valley
Population Distribution:
Total Population: 43,906
Male: 22,552
Female: 21,354
Number of household: 8,689
Access of physical facility
Percentage of drinking water facility through pipe system: 77.77
Percentage of drinking facility through natural spring: 22.23
Number of electrified village development committee with national gridlines: 11
Number of electrified village development committee with peltric set: 3
Number of household with telephone line: 195
Number of postal office: 18
Educational Institution & Status of the district:
Total Primary school: 81
Total Lower Secondary school: 81
Total Secondary School: 8
Total Higher Secondary school: 2
Total teacher: 447
Male: 362
Female: 85
Average schooling age: 1.56
Youth literacy: 25.4
Health Facilities in Rasuwa district:
District hospital: 1
Number of health post: 9
Number of sub health post: 9
Homeopathic centre: 3
Other Indicator:
a) Human development indices:
• Average life expectancy: 54.75 yrs.
• Per capita Income : 1802 US Dollor
• Human development index : 0.394
• Gender empowerment index : 0.238
• Rank in human development : 62 (Out of 75 District)
• Rank in Gender empowerment : 28
b) Poverty indices:
i) Poverty
• Poverty Incidence: 50.9 %
• Poverty Gap : 16.2 %
• Poverty Severity : 6.9 %
ii) Caloric Intake
• Caloric Intake Prevalence : 49.4 %
• Caloric Intake Gap : 11.2 %
• Caloric Intake Severity : 3.7 %
iii) Malnutrition :
• Stunting : 61.1 %
• Sever Stunting : 29 %
• Underweight : 40.3 %
• Severe Underweight : 11.4 %
• Wasting : 3.1 %
• Severe Wasting : 0.2 % 
