Law & Order Headline indicator Lower is better

Court case pendency

Total pending cases at District + Subordinate courts per 1,000 population. Lower is better; high pendency indicates slow disposal and access-to-justice gaps.

Tamil Nadu's case pendency is 24.5 per 1,000 per 1,000 population (2026), per eCommittee, Supreme Court of India.

Tamil Nadu, latest

24.5 per 1,000

2026 · provisional

Last verified 2026-05-16

Latest

24.5 per 1,000

2026 · single snapshot

Rank vs compared states

#1 of 5

TN vs MH, KA, GJ, UP · lower is better

Tamil Nadu's Case pendency is 24.5 per 1,000 (2026). It ranks #1 of 5 compared states (lower is better).

Source Official eCommittee, Supreme Court of India Coverage 2026 Sources & methodology ↓

About this indicator

This measures cases pending in district and subordinate courts per thousand people, normalising the backlog by population so states can be compared on how clogged their lower courts are. It signals delay in access to justice, driven by judge vacancies, filing rates, and procedural bottlenecks as much as by crime or dispute levels. Because it pools civil and criminal matters and depends on how pendency is recorded, it is a broad congestion gauge rather than a precise measure of delay per case.

Case pendency · 2026

Tamil Nadu's Case pendency: 24.5 per 1,000 (2026).

Single observation: 24.5 per 1,000 (2026). No trend available yet.

Source: eCommittee, Supreme Court of India

Where this data comes from

The provenance of every value above and how to cite it.

Source provenance

All observations come from a single source.

2026

Primary ↗

eCommittee, Supreme Court of India

NJDG District + Subordinate Courts live dashboard (pending count); Census 2011 population as denominator

5 observations across 5 states · Tier 1

Click any segment to open the source publication and verify the values yourself.

Methodology & notes

Live NJDG District + Subordinate Courts pendency snapshot (point-in-time, not end-of-year), scraped from the portal, ÷ Census 2011 state population × 1,000. The fixed Census 2011 denominator makes the rate exactly reproducible but ages over time, so recent values run slightly high.

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