Pending Court Cases
45M · 2024
Total cases pending across all courts in India — a measure of judicial backlog.
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Are courts keeping up?
The capacity of India's courts to deliver timely justice and rule of law.
Compare up to two metrics on one chart — each on its own scale (left and right axis). All data from public sources; hover any year for exact values.
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- Pending Court Cases worsened from 31M (2010) to 45M (2024) — a 45% change.
- Annual Cases Disposed improved from 15M (2010) to 23M (2024) — a 50% change.
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Annual Cases Disposed
23M · 2024
Number of cases disposed across all courts in a year — throughput of the judiciary.