“Dogs are biting less in India. A 2025 survey reported 9.1 million dog bites, down from 17 million recorded in 2003. Over the same period, the number of rabies deaths in India dropped from over 17,000 to 5,726,” reports The Doomslayer.
WellBeing International explains:
The 2003 survey in India estimated that there were 17 million dog bites annually, translating to approximately 15 per 100,000 people. These dog bites were responsible for an estimated 17,000 to 20,000 human deaths from rabies. At that time, India accounted for about one-third of the global rabies burden, with over 95% of human rabies cases occurring after a dog bite incident.
In 2025, a follow-up survey on rabies incidence in India was published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. The study surveyed 78,807 households nationwide from March 2022 through August 2023. It estimated the annual rate of dog bites at 5.6 per 100,000 people, resulting in 9.1 million bites, and reported 5,726 annual human deaths from rabies. This indicates that the incidence of dog bites in India has decreased by two-thirds over the twenty years from 2003 to 2023, while human rabies deaths in the country have declined by approximately 75%.
Sterilization of street dogs contributed to this decline in rabies cases, by gradually reducing the population of stray dogs that bite people.
Malaria cases have fallen 80 percent in India since 2015.
Cheetahs recently returned to India after being absent since 1952, when they went extinct there. India has also doubled its tiger population.
Chatbots are being developed for India’s many languages (700 languages are spoken in India).
India’s capital city is so polluted that it tried to use artificial rain to fight air pollution. Pollution is very bad in parts of northern India. If you travel through those regions, you get dust all over your car’s windshield, dust between your teeth, and dust covering your clothes. India’s capital, Delhi, is a dusty megacity. Its 34 million people die years sooner than they otherwise would, due to air pollution.
