State of Aadhaar

95% of adults
have Aadhaar, and on an average use it once a month

75% of children
have Aadhaar

90% of residents
in Assam and

61% of residents
in Meghalaya do not have Aadhaar

30% of homeless, and 27% of third-gender residents
do not have Aadhaar

8% of people do not have Aadhaar
– or an estimated 102 million people,
75 million of whom are children

33% of people
who tried to update found the process difficult;
one in five did not succeed

4% of people
currently have errors in the information on their Aadhaar card

15% of people
have an error in their linked mobile phone number;
an additional 39% have not linked a number at all

49% of people
used Aadhaar to access one or more services for the very first time
(e.g., ration, MGNREGS, social pensions, SIM cards, and/or bank accounts)

For 8% of people,
Aadhaar was their first ID ever

80% of beneficiaries
feel Aadhaar has made PDS rations, MGNREGS and social pensions more reliable

0.8% of people
experienced exclusion due to Aadhaar-related reasons from a key welfare service (PDS, MGNREGS, social pensions) which they had earlier received. (Our survey also found that 3.3% of people experienced exclusion because of non-Aadhaar related problems from a key welfare service which they had earlier received)

1% of MGNREGS job card holders
did not get work the last time they tried due to Aadhaar-related reasons (compared to 31% due to non-Aadhaar related reasons)

0.5% of social pension beneficiaries
did not receive their pension the last time they expected it due to problems with Aadhaar (compared to 5.7% who did not receive it due to non-Aadhaar related reasons and many more who could not identify a reason)

1.5% of PDS users
experienced a biometric authentication failure and did not receive ration in their last attempt. However, 3.2% of PDS users received their rations despite biometric authentication failure.

More than half of all people
who produced Aadhaar to get a SIM card or bank account, said their provider accepted only Aadhaar, even after the Supreme Court ruling

3.3% of people
were denied bank accounts, and 0.8% of people were denied SIM cards due to Aadhaar-related problems

0.5% of 6 to 14 year olds
could not enrol in school due to Aadhaar-related reasons

65% of people
mistakenly believe that providing Aadhaar is mandatory by law for bank accounts, SIM cards, and school enrolment

72% of residents
appreciate the convenience of Aadhaar as a universal ID, but almost half of these same people worry about the risks of linking it to too many services

92% of people
are very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with Aadhaar

67% of people
who have been excluded from a service due to problems with Aadhaar still say they are satisfied

77% of people
have never used a newer digital feature of Aadhaar (such as the mAadhaar app, QR code scanning, virtual Aadhaar number, or masked Aadhaar)

Only 39%
have linked a correct mobile phone number to their Aadhaar

90% of people
trust that their data are safe in the Aadhaar system

61% of welfare beneficiaries
trust that Aadhaar prevents others from accessing their benefits

8% worry about the misuse of their Aadhaar,
and 2% have experienced fraud that they believe was related to Aadhaar