The much-awaited numbers are out now. The Ministry of Environment & Forests released the all-India Tiger Estimation Report for 2022.  As per this estimation report, Indian forests are home to 3682 wild tigers an increase of roughly 700 tigers since the last estimation in 2018, which estimated the tiger count as 2967.  Please note that 3682 is an estimation based on the low and high ranges (3167-3925). Experts say we could easily have close to 4,000 tigers in India within and outside the protected areas.

India now accounts for 75% of the World's wild Tiger Population, in line with our commitment made during the Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in 2010. All thirteen Tiger Range countries (countries where tigers roam freely in the wild) had committed to double their tiger numbers by 2022. As per the 2010 estimation we had 1706 big cats in Indian forests and now we have more than double of tiger numbers in 2010.

Madhya Pradesh with 6 Tiger reserves- Kanha Tiger Reserve, Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve, Panna Tiger Reserve, Pench Tiger Reserve, Satpura and Sanjay Dubri Tiger Reserves continues to be India's 'Tiger State' with 785 tigers followed by Karnataka and Uttarakhand with 563 and 560 tigers respectively.  Most of the tiger states have reported an increase in Tiger population except Chhattisgarh, Orissa and Arunachal Pradesh reporting a decline in tiger numbers over previous years. 

This massive exercise was completed with the help of 32588 camera traps installed over 641,450 sq km forest area utilising 641102 man-days.  India now has 54 tiger reserves across the country but a sizeable population of tigers exist outside the protected areas as well. 

Estimated tiger numbers in each landscape from 2006 to 2022
State			Tiger Population
			2006	2010	2014	2018	2022
Shivalik Hills and Gangetic Plains Landscape
Bihar			10	8	28	31	54
Uttarakhand			178	227	340	442	560
Uttar Pradesh			109	118	117	173	205
Shivalik- Gangetic			297	353	485	646	819**
Central Indian Landscape and Eastern Ghats
Andhra Pradesh			95	72	68	48	63
Telangana			-	-	-	26	21
Chhattisgarh			26	26	46	19	17
Jharkhand				10	3*	5	1*
Madhya Pradesh			300	257	308	526	785
Maharashtra			103	168	190	312	444
Odisha			45	32	28	28	20
Rajasthan			32	36	45	69	88
Central India & Eastern Ghats			601	601	688	1,033	1439
Western Ghats Landscape
Goa			-	-	5*	3	5
Karnataka			290	300	406	524	563
Kerala			46	71	136	190	213
Tamil Nadu			76	163	229	264	306
Western Ghats			402	534	776	981	1087
North East Hills and Brahmaputra Plains Landscape
Arunachal			14		28	29	9
Assam			70	143	167	190	227
Mizoram			6	5	3*	0	0
Nagaland			-	-	-	0	0
Northern West Bengal			10	-	3*	0	2
North East Hills, and Brahmaputra			100	148	201	219	236
Sundarbans				70	76	88	101
TOTAL			1,411 (1,165-1,657)	1,706 (1,507-1,896)	2,226 (1,945-2,491)	2,967 (2,603-3,346)	3682 (3167-3925)