Lawyers in India by state

A sortable table <ref>[Legally India story, February 2013|http://www.legallyindia.com/201302183448/Bar-Bench-Litigation/rti-reveals-number-of-lawyers-india]</ref> with all data from a right to information (RTI) response by the Bar Council of India (BCI) to Delhi-based advocate Kush Kalra. The response reveals that there were nearly 1.3 million lawyers in India in 2011, with the profession growing by an average of around 4 per cent per year.

State	Total Advocates	Advocates enrolled in last 5 years	5 year growth %	Growth rate % (5 year-on-year average)	State GDP ($bn)	GDP / lawyer ($)	State population (m)	Non-lawyers per lawyer	Lawyers enrolled in 2007	(% total)	2008	(%)	2009	(%)	2010	(%)	2011	Data as at	2011 Normalised to full year	(%)
Uttar Pradesh	288297	51335	17.8	3.6	122.9	426,366	200	692	9236	3.2	8310	2.9	10100	3.5	19500	6.8	4189	29/08/2011	6336	2.2
Bihar	113298	13394	11.8	2.4	47.7	420,749	104	916	3228	2.8	1741	1.5	2507	2.2	3442	3.0	2476	31/08/2011	3714	3.3
Maharashtra & Goa	112706	28547	25.3	5.1	222.8	1,976,470	114	1,010	6676	5.9	6722	6.0	6548	5.8	8119	7.2	482	05/03/2011	2711	2.4
Andhra Pradesh	80225	12922	16.1	3.2	124.8	1,555,126	85	1,055	2793	3.5	2654	3.3	2920	3.6	3776	4.7	779	31/07/2011	1335	1.7
Karnataka	74032	15615	21.1	4.2	84.6	1,143,289	61	826	4384	5.9	3811	5.1	3374	4.6	3862	5.2	184	05/03/2011	1035	1.4
Tamil Nadu	67000	15924	23.8	4.8	115.5	1,723,284	72	1,077	3270	4.9	3143	4.7	3129	4.7	3182	4.7	3200	31/08/2011	4800	7.2
Punjab & Haryana	64826	16831	26.0	5.2	103.4	1,595,039	25	391	3490	5.4	3428	5.3	3924	6.1	4902	7.6	1087	31/07/2011	1863	2.9
Madhya Pradesh	64562	15704	24.3	4.9	52.7	816,579	33	517	3080	4.8	3165	4.9	3240	5.0	4681	7.3	1538	21/08/2011	2407	3.7
Gujarat	64261	7071	11.0	2.2	105.4	1,640,186	60	940	1500	2.3	1511	2.4	1598	2.5	2316	3.6	146	05/03/2011	821	1.3
Rajasthan	63370	15454	24.4	4.9	67.2	1,060,439	69	1,083	4465	7.0	3141	5.0	2509	4.0	5151	8.1	188	05/03/2011	1058	1.7
West Bengal	59535	N/a			100.0	1,679,180	91	1,534										28/10/2010
Delhi	54258	15709	29.0	5.8	57.0	1,050,536	17	309	2435	4.5	2923	5.4	3898	7.2	4907	9.0	1547	19/08/2011	2443	4.5
Orissa	44625	5831	13.1	2.6	41.1	921,681	42	940	1523	3.4	864	1.9	1107	2.5	1597	3.6	740	31/08/2011	1110	2.5
Kerala	43339	5656	13.1	2.6	59.4	1,370,359	33	770	1069	2.5	997	2.3	1340	3.1	1284	3.0	966	31/07/2011	1656	3.8
Assam, Nagaland, etc	23077	7074	30.7	6.1	23.2	1,004,030	33	1,436	1828	7.9	1221	5.3	1277	5.5	2208	9.6	540	05/03/2011	3038	13.2
Chhatisgarh	22940	4409	19.2	3.8	24.6	1,072,363	26	1,113	1037	4.5	1011	4.4	848	3.7	1406	6.1	107	05/03/2011	602	2.6
Jharkhand	9789	4378	44.7	8.9	21.7	2,216,774	33	3,368	932	9.5	765	7.8	846	8.6	1095	11.2	740	31/07/2011	1269	13.0
Uttarakhand	9277	2821	30.4	6.1	15.8	1,703,137	10	1,091	547	5.9	456	4.9	563	6.1	1015	10.9	240	31/08/2011	360	3.9
Himachal Pradesh	7921	1770	22.3	4.5	11.4	1,439,212	7	866	339	4.3	391	4.9	477	6.0	516	6.5	47	31/07/2011	81	1.0
Jammu & Kashsmir	5951	2080	35.0	7.0	12.1	2,028,231	13	2,109	354	5.9	317	5.3	432	7.3	436	7.3	541	14/11/2011	622	10.5
TOTAL	1273289	242525	19.0	3.8	1413.2	1,109,850	1,128	886	52186	4.1	48579	3.8	52646	4.1	75405	5.9	21748		37261	2.9