India records highest global doping positivity in WADA 2024 figures

According to the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) 2024 Testing Figures Report, released in Dec 2025, India registered 260 adverse analytical findings (AAFs) from 7,113 samples collected during the year. Among countries conducting more than 5,000 tests annually, India recorded the highest positivity rate in the world for the third consecutive year, at 3.6%.

The WADA publication summarises testing activity and adverse results from the reported period, highlighting national outcomes alongside global totals. India’s tally of 260 AAFs and the accompanying sample count are listed in the 2024 Testing Figures Report, which WADA issued in Dec 2025. The report’s metrics place particular emphasis on nations that performed large testing programmes, using a 5,000-tests threshold to distinguish comparative cohorts. That framework is the basis for the finding that India’s 3.6% positivity rate led the group of countries conducting more than 5,000 tests.

WADA’s 2024 Testing Figures Report records 260 adverse analytical findings attributed to India from a total of 7,113 samples collected during the year, producing a stated positivity rate of 3.6%. Those figures appear in the agency’s dataset released in Dec 2025, which aggregates laboratory-confirmed AAFs across the reporting period. The numeric relationship between AAFs and total samples is presented directly in the report’s country-by-country breakdown.

The report also applies a comparative lens to nations with substantial testing volumes; among countries conducting more than 5,000 tests annually, India recorded the highest positivity rate in the world for the third consecutive year. That distinction is explicitly noted in the WADA document and is based on the 3.6% figure reported for India. The three-year sequence referenced in the report underscores a repeated outcome within the same comparative bracket.

WADA released the 2024 Testing Figures Report in Dec 2025, and the agency’s published numbers show India at the top of the list by positivity rate among high-testing countries. The combination of 260 AAFs, 7,113 samples and a 3.6% positivity rate constitutes the data WADA supplied for India in that report.

The WADA 2024 Testing Figures Report therefore positions India as the country with the highest positivity rate among those conducting more than 5,000 tests annually, according to the data released in Dec 2025. The report’s figures—260 AAFs from 7,113 samples, yielding a 3.6% positivity rate—are the basis for that classification for the third consecutive year.