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What is known,
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What the government publishes for each of India's 28 states and 8 union territories: dog bites, suspected rabies deaths, the last population census, and sterilisation coverage where it exists. Where nobody has published a figure, the row says so.

CoveragePublished studiesInterventions
Dog bites reported, 202437.2 Lreported by every state and union territory through health surveillance
Suspected rabies deaths, 202454what surveillance caught; modelling puts the real toll near 19,000
Sterilisation coverage published2/36the rest have released no figure at all

28 states and 8 union territories · 2 with published sterilisation coverage

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Goa

Dog bites reported, 2024
17,236

Up 114% on 2022 (8,057)

Dog bite cases reported by states and UTs on the IDSP-IHIP portal, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare; tabled as Annexure-I to the Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying reply "Stray Dogs", 1 April 2025 (PIB)

Suspected human rabies deaths, 2024
0

Deaths caught by passive surveillance. Modelling puts the real national toll near 19,000 a year, so this is what was recorded rather than what happened.

Street-dog population
30,000

20th Livestock Census (2019), Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying; state figures as compiled in public reporting of the census tables (2019)

Sterilisation coverage
60%

Goa state ABC programme progress, reported via local municipal data (2024)

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  • Goa SPCA

Dog bites reported, 2024

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