India houses 70% of world's tiger population: Tiger Census report

The Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar released the detailed report of the Tiger Census on 28 July 2020.
- As per the report, India’s tiger population stands at 2967 which is 70 percent of the total tiger population in the world.
- Of these, nearly 30 percent of India’s tigers are outside tiger reserves.
- Also, there are 50 tiger reserves in India as per the report
The Ministry is also working in leadership role for Tiger Conservation with all the 13 Tiger range countries to share best practices in their actual management of tiger reserves, etc.
There are currently 13 tiger range countries; Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam.
The detailed report compares information obtained from the earlier three surveys (2006, 2010, and 2014) with data obtained from the 2018-19 survey to estimate population trends at country and landscape scales, patch colonization and extinction rates along with information on likely factors responsible for changes in tiger status at the fine spatial resolution of 100 km.