Crime rate
Published
Every number is as printed in NCRB’s Crime in India for that year, with the table, page and row.
How many crimes do police register for every lakh people, and how has that changed?
Latest figure
418.9Police registered 418.9 cognisable crimes per lakh people in 2024. Not comparable with 2023: NCRB changed what is counted.
per lakh people
From Crime in India 2024 — Table 1.1: Crimes under IPC (IPC/BNS from 2024) and SLL — incidence and crime rate, published 6 May 2026.
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2024. Crime rate (per lakh people): 2024: IPC and BNS: 418.9 per lakh people (Crime in India 2024, Published).
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Selected period: 2024- Before 2014 SLL change · 2004–2015
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- Change of definition
Yearly, calendar year. Each colour is one definition. Lines are never joined across a change of definition, and a missing year means NCRB did not print that figure.
In plain words
What it means
The crime rate is the number of cognisable crimes police registered in the year for every 1,00,000 people, as NCRB prints it. A cognisable crime is one police can register and investigate without a court’s order.
It adds crimes under the penal code (IPC, and BNS from July 2024) and under special and local laws (SLL), such as the NDPS and Arms Acts.
What is a cognisable crime?
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- These are crimes police registered, not all crimes that happened. Many crimes are never reported or registered, and a rise can mean more people came forward or registration became easier.
- NCRB counts one offence per case: when a case has several offences, only the most serious is counted.
- Rates use NCRB’s own population projections, which changed over the years; we show each rate exactly as printed.
- 2024 mixes the old and new criminal codes (BNS from 1 July 2024), so the change from 2023 to 2024 is not like for like.
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Sources
Where this comes from
Published
Each number comes from one table in NCRB’s Crime in India for that year, exactly as printed, with a link to the table. Where NCRB also released the table on data.gov.in under the Government Open Data License – India, we name that copy too.
How we check the numbers →- Edition
- Crime in India 2024
- Table
- 1.1
- Published
- 6 May 2026
- Licence
- Government Open Data License – India (via data.gov.in)
- Open-data copy
- data.gov.in
Technical details
Data points: 23
Where the selected number is: Crime in India 2024, Table 1.1, PDF page 1, row “Year 2024”, column “Rate — Total”
Definitions: cii-sll-wide, cii-sll-fir, cii-bns-2024
Data fingerprint: 60fc8b48500016c2
Later reprints with a different figure: 0
Locator: Crime in India 2024, Table 1.1 (NCRB table file, manifest ncrb-crime-retained-source/v1, captured 2026-10-07); each value names its PDF page, row and column.
Latest table file: https://www.ncrb.gov.in/uploads/files/TABLE119.pdf
SHA-256: ab6a0b2202829501dfe446d34a5a389b21bf1feef1e44f84f2e97f5efb7ac48c
Attribution: National Crime Records Bureau, Crime in India 2024 — Table 1.1: Crimes under IPC (IPC/BNS from 2024) and SLL — incidence and crime rate, Open Government Data Platform India, https://www.data.gov.in/resource/year-wise-details-crimes-under-indian-penal-code-ipcbharatiya-nyay-sanhita-bns-and-special. Published under the Government Open Data License – India: https://data.gov.in/government-open-data-license-india
- Edition
- Crime in India 2023
- Table
- 1.1
- Published
- 29 Sept 2025
- Licence
- Government Open Data License – India (via data.gov.in)
- Open-data copy
- data.gov.in
Show all 20 Crime in India tables usedEvery official release used here
- Edition
- Crime in India 2022
- Table
- 1.1
- Published
- 3 Dec 2023
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2021
- Table
- 1.1
- Published
- 29 Aug 2022
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2020
- Table
- 1.1
- Published
- 15 Sept 2021
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2019
- Table
- 1.1
- Published
- 29 Sept 2020
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2018
- Table
- 1.1
- Published
- 9 Jan 2020
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2017
- Table
- 1.1
- Published
- 21 Oct 2019
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2016
- Table
- 1.1
- Published
- 30 Nov 2017
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2015
- Table
- 1.2
- Published
- 30 Aug 2016
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2014
- Table
- 1.2
- Published
- 30 Sept 2015
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2013
- Table
- 1.2
- Published
- 6 Jul 2014
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2012
- Table
- 1.2
- Published
- 15 Jun 2013
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2011
- Table
- 1.2
- Published
- 30 Jun 2012
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2010
- Table
- 1.2
- Published
- 22 Sept 2011
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2009
- Table
- 1.2
- Published
- 14 Jan 2011
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2008
- Table
- 1.2
- Published
- 25 Feb 2010
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2007
- Table
- 1.2
- Published
- 25 Nov 2008
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2006
- Table
- 1.2
- Published
- 13 Dec 2007
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
- Edition
- Crime in India 2005
- Table
- 1.2
- Published
- 19 Aug 2006
- Licence
- Official NCRB table (no data.gov.in copy)
Data table
Every year
Each value as printed, with the edition and table it comes from. A year can appear twice when two definitions publish it.
Show all 23 readingsEvery value, as published
| Year | Value | Definition | Edition | Later reprint | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 418.9 | 2024: IPC and BNS | Crime in India 2024, 1.1 | — | 6 May 2026 |
| 2023 | 448.3 | From 2014, SLL as FIRs | Crime in India 2023, 1.1 | — | 29 Sept 2025 |
| 2022 | 422.2 | From 2014, SLL as FIRs | Crime in India 2022, 1.1 | — | 3 Dec 2023 |
| 2021 | 445.9 | From 2014, SLL as FIRs | Crime in India 2021, 1.1 | — | 29 Aug 2022 |
| 2020 | 487.8 | From 2014, SLL as FIRs | Crime in India 2020, 1.1 | — | 15 Sept 2021 |
| 2019 | 385.5 | From 2014, SLL as FIRs | Crime in India 2019, 1.1 | — | 29 Sept 2020 |
| 2018 | 383.5 | From 2014, SLL as FIRs | Crime in India 2018, 1.1 | — | 9 Jan 2020 |
| 2017 | 388.6 | From 2014, SLL as FIRs | Crime in India 2017, 1.1 | — | 21 Oct 2019 |
| 2016 | 379.3 | From 2014, SLL as FIRs | Crime in India 2016, 1.1 | — | 30 Nov 2017 |
| 2015 | 581.8 | Before 2014 SLL change | Crime in India 2015, 1.2 | — | 30 Aug 2016 |
| 2015 | 374.1 | From 2014, SLL as FIRs | Crime in India 2016, 1.1 | — | 30 Nov 2017 |
| 2014 | 581.1 | Before 2014 SLL change | Crime in India 2014, 1.2 | — | 30 Sept 2015 |
| 2014 | 367.5 | From 2014, SLL as FIRs | Crime in India 2016, 1.1 | — | 30 Nov 2017 |
| 2013 | 540.4 | Before 2014 SLL change | Crime in India 2013, 1.2 | — | 6 Jul 2014 |
| 2012 | 497.9 | Before 2014 SLL change | Crime in India 2012, 1.2 | — | 15 Jun 2013 |
| 2011 | 516.7 | Before 2014 SLL change | Crime in India 2011, 1.2 | — | 30 Jun 2012 |
| 2010 | 569.3 | Before 2014 SLL change | Crime in India 2010, 1.2 | — | 22 Sept 2011 |
| 2009 | 570.8 | Before 2014 SLL change | Crime in India 2009, 1.2 | — | 14 Jan 2011 |
| 2008 | 515 | Before 2014 SLL change | Crime in India 2008, 1.2 | — | 25 Feb 2010 |
| 2007 | 504.5 | Before 2014 SLL change | Crime in India 2007, 1.2 | — | 25 Nov 2008 |
| 2006 | 455.7 | Before 2014 SLL change | Crime in India 2006, 1.2 | — | 13 Dec 2007 |
| 2005 | 455.8 | Before 2014 SLL change | Crime in India 2005, 1.2 | — | 19 Aug 2006 |
| 2004 | 555.3 | Before 2014 SLL change | Crime in India 2005, 1.2 | — | 19 Aug 2006 |