Overall, the camel population in India declined from 4 lakh in 2012 to just 2.5 lakh in 2019. In Rajasthan, it decreased from 3.26 lakh to 2.13 lakh, in Gujarat from 30,000 to 28,000, in Haryana from 19,000 to 5,000 and in Uttar Pradesh from 8,000 to just 2,000.