The short answer
As of July 2026, the government says over 104 crore health records are linked to over 93 crore ABHA accounts under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission.1 In December 2025 there were 83.94 crore ABHA accounts, 4,42,000 registered health facilities and 7,47,000 registered healthcare professionals.4 Every figure below comes from a PIB or health ministry document, with its date.
ABDM itself was launched in September 2021.1 A crore is ten million and a lakh is one hundred thousand, so 104 crore records is 1.04 billion, and 4,42,000 facilities is 442,000.
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The trend in one table
Official releases don’t all report the same measures on the same dates, so some cells are blank. Each row cites the document it came from.
| As on | ABHA accounts | Records linked to ABHA | Facilities registered | Professionals registered | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Sep 2024 | over 67 crore | over 42 crore | 3.3 lakh | 4.7 lakh | 2 |
| 6 Feb 2025 | over 73.98 crore | over 49.06 crore | over 3.63 lakh (HFR) | over 5.64 lakh (HPR) | 3 |
| 12 Dec 2025 | 83.94 crore | 79.71 crore | 4,42,000 | 7,47,000 | 4 |
| May 2026 | over 90 crore | over 100 crore | 1 | ||
| Jul 2026 | over 93 crore | over 104 crore | 1 |
Read across the rows and two things stand out. ABHA accounts grew by about 40% between September 2024 and July 2026. Linked records grew far faster, from about 42 crore to over 104 crore, which means the number of records per account went from well under one to more than one.
What the numbers mean
ABHA accounts count identifiers created. An ABHA number is a 14-digit health identifier that links a person’s records across facilities, with consent.1 Creating one is a step at registration, so this number rises with registration drives as well as with care.
Records linked to ABHA count health records that a facility, lab or app has tied to an ABHA. These records are not in one central database: the PIB backgrounder says data stays with whoever created it and is shared only with the patient’s consent.1 So “104 crore records” means 104 crore records held across many systems, each findable through the network.
Facilities and professionals registered count entries in the Health Facility Registry and the Healthcare Professionals Registry. Registration is not the same as using ABDM-enabled software day to day. In February 2025, against 3.63 lakh registered facilities, PIB reported over 1.59 lakh facilities using ABDM-enabled software.3 That gap is the one to watch if you sell to hospitals: registered is common, wired in is less so.
The registries grew too. Between September 2024 and December 2025, registered professionals went from 4.7 lakh to 7,47,000, a rise of about 59%, and registered facilities from 3.3 lakh to 4,42,000, about 34%.24 Professionals grew faster than facilities, which fits a network where one hospital registers many doctors.
Adoption numbers beyond ABHA
The July 2026 backgrounder adds figures for the services built on top of the registries:
| Measure | Figure | As on |
|---|---|---|
| Scan and Share tokens issued (QR registration at the OPD) | over 23.21 crore1 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| Waiting time with Scan and Share, per an IIHMR study | about one hour down to 2 to 5 minutes1 | study cited Jul 2026 |
| Digital Health Incentive Scheme paid to hospitals | Rs. 107+ crore1 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| DHIS paid to diagnostics, labs and pharmacies | Rs. 2.95 crore1 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| DHIS paid to digital solution companies | Rs. 26+ crore1 | 18 Jun 2026 |
| eSushrut@Clinic facilities onboarded | more than 2,2001 | Jul 2026 |
For comparison, the September 2024 release counted over 5 crore Scan and Share OPD tokens2, so token volume rose more than fourfold in under two years. Incentives under DHIS began on 1 January 2023.2
How to cite ABDM figures
A short checklist for anyone putting these numbers in a deck, a tender response or a grant application:
- Always give the “as on” date. ABDM figures move monthly. “93 crore ABHA” without a date will be wrong within weeks.
- Cite PIB or the ministry, not a news story. Every figure in this post links to the government document that published it.
- Don’t mix measures. “Facilities registered” and “facilities using ABDM-enabled software” differ by more than half.3
- Don’t add records and accounts. They measure different things; one account can have many records.
- Say “over” when the source does. Most releases give lower bounds (“over 104 crore”), not exact counts.
What the numbers don’t tell you
None of these figures says how accurate the linked records are, how many were created or changed by software rather than people, or how often a record shared between hospitals was later corrected. Those questions matter more each year, because hospitals are adding AI tools that read and draft records, and a record created once can be shared many times through the network.
If you run a hospital system, the practical step is to know which of your systems, people and tools can create or change a record that will later be linked to an ABHA, and to keep an audit trail for each change outside the tool that made it. Our post on AI agent audit logs under the DPDP Rules covers what Indian rules ask of that trail, and the ABDM building blocks explains how a record moves. The FHIR write benchmark shows how often an API says “created” when the stored record differs, and /healthcare covers what Deedglass does about it.
To try the checks on synthetic data, open the playground in your browser. To see what an AI agent on your machine can change, run npx deedglass scan (what the grade means) or paste its MCP config into /check; neither uploads your data. Our AI agent permissions report shows what public agent setups commonly leave open.
Written with AI assistance and checked against our claims register.