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	Population	Estimate	World
World	4485	3726–5578	100
India	2967	2603–3346	66.2
Other tiger range countries	1518	1033–2232	33.8
Outside India's tiger reserves^a	1044	–	23.2
Central India^b	883	753–1026	19.7
Kanha–Pench Landscape	308	252–370	6.9

	Population	Estimate	World
World	4485	3726–5578	100
India	2967	2603–3346	66.2
Other tiger range countries	1518	1033–2232	33.8
Outside India's tiger reserves^a	1044	–	23.2
Central India^b	883	753–1026	19.7
Kanha–Pench Landscape	308	252–370	6.9

Table 1.

Comparison of tiger estimates across different regions.

	Population	Estimate	World
Region	estimate	range	population percentage
World	4485	3726–5578	100
India	2967	2603–3346	66.2
Other tiger range countries	1518	1033–2232	33.8
Outside India's tiger reserves^a	1044	–	23.2
Central India^b	883	753–1026	19.7
Kanha–Pench Landscape	308	252–370	6.9

	Population	Estimate	World
Region	estimate	range	population percentage
World	4485	3726–5578	100
India	2967	2603–3346	66.2
Other tiger range countries	1518	1033–2232	33.8
Outside India's tiger reserves^a	1044	–	23.2
Central India^b	883	753–1026	19.7
Kanha–Pench Landscape	308	252–370	6.9

Note: India contains the majority of the world's wild tigers, and of those individuals, over one-third use habitat outside a protected tiger reserve. The tiger metapopulation in Central India is the largest in the world with the Kanha–Pench population block being the largest in that region. The population block acts as an important tiger source population and is a larger tiger population than all but three tiger range countries (Indonesia, Russia, and Nepal). Source: The estimates were taken from Goodrich and colleagues (2022) and Jhala and colleagues (2019), and the data were collected from 2014 to 2020.

^aEstimate of resident tigers in India outside of a designated tiger reserve (Jhala et al. 2021).

^bCentral India, for these purposes, includes the states of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, and Telangana. Almost all of Maharashtra's tiger population resides in the eastern portion of the state.

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