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India's 4 million registered companies, by the numbers

India's Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) publishes a master record of every company ever registered in the country. We pulled the whole thing — 4,065,191 companies — and counted what's actually in it. The headline finding: most of them are no longer trading.

4.07M<br>companies on the register

44%<br>are currently Active

887,529<br>have been struck off

91%<br>are private limited

Only 1,800,155 of the 4.07 million are marked Active . Roughly 1 in 5 has been struck off, and the rest sit in states like dormant, amalgamated, or under liquidation. For anyone running due diligence or KYC on an Indian counterparty, "it's on the register" and "it's actually alive" are two very different facts — which is exactly why status matters more than existence.

Where India's companies are registered

Registration concentrates heavily in two hubs: Maharashtra (Mumbai) and Delhi together hold over 1.5 million companies — nearly 38% of the entire country.

Maharashtra

821,545

Delhi

714,278

West Bengal

414,599

Uttar Pradesh

344,623

Tamil Nadu

297,922

Karnataka

265,071

Telangana

221,623

Kerala

119,202

Gujarat

115,025

Rajasthan

67,795

Public vs private

The register is overwhelmingly private companies — 3,714,359 private limited vs just 278,978 public limited. India's listed and large-cap universe is a rounding error against the mass of small private entities, which is where most counterparty and supplier risk actually sits.

How to look any of them up

Every one of these companies has a public master record — CIN, registered name, status, class, authorized and paid-up capital, date of registration, registered state, Registrar of Companies, and registered office address. You can query them by CIN, filter by state, status, or class, or search by name.

We package the official MCA Company Master Data as a clean, filterable API — no CAPTCHAs, no scraping, no per-lookup fees. Built for KYC/AML, due diligence, lead-gen, and market mapping.

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Source: Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) "Company Master Data", Government of India, via the Open Government Data (OGD) Platform (data.gov.in). Counts pulled 2026-07-12 from the official dataset (catalog ec58dab7). Aggregate figures only — no individual company is named on this page.