India's wild tigers have more than doubled since 2006
Estimated wild tigers in India by landscape, All India Tiger Estimation cycles, 2006–2022.
- 1. India now has more working-age people than China
- 2. India's UPI now handles 86% as many payments as Visa
- 3. Indian students now outnumber Chinese students in the US
- 4. India's GitHub developers outnumber China's, Brazil's and Japan's combined
- 5. India's stock market grew 23-fold since 2000
- 6. Indian phone users now average 25 GB of data monthly
- 7. India's metro network quadrupled in a decade
- 8. India now ships over a third of world rice exports
- 9. India went from 1% to 37% of Russia's crude sales
- 10. India's wild tigers have more than doubled since 2006
- 11. Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric
- 12. Indians now file more patents at home than Germans
- 13. India published more science papers than Germany and Britain combined
- 14. India now holds more foreign reserves than Saudi Arabia
- 15. Open defecation in India fell from 73% to 7%
India's estimated wild tigers rose from 1,411 in 2006 to 3,682 in 2022.
Central India and the Eastern Ghats added the most tigers, from 601 to 1,439.
Madhya Pradesh has the most tigers of any state, up from 300 in 2006.
the numbers & method
| Year | India, total | Central India & Eastern Ghats | Western Ghats | Shivalik-Gangetic Plain | North East Hills & Brahmaputra | Sundarbans |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 1,411 | 601 | 412 | 297 | 100 | |
| 2010 | 1,706 | 601 | 534 | 353 | 148 | 70 |
| 2014 | 2,226 | 688 | 776 | 485 | 201 | 76 |
| 2018 | 2,967 | 1,033 | 981 | 646 | 219 | 88 |
| 2022 | 3,682 | 1,439 | 1,087 | 819 | 236 | 101 |
Claim types Fact · Estimate
Figures from Annexure-I of the government's reply, compiled from the All India Tiger Estimation reports. 2022 is the latest completed cycle; the 2026 cycle is not yet published. Methods improved across cycles (more camera-trap coverage), so part of the rise reflects better counting. Sundarbans was not estimated in 2006. Landscape subtotals as published; the North East state rows sum to 240 vs the published 236.
Published 3 Nov 2026
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