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Male - Hair Loss stage across India
Across every state and union territory, roughly half of the men who take a hair assessment are already past the early stages. This is where that share is highest — and where men are still reaching out while there is more to work with.
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Read these as patterns in who is seeking help and what they report — not as clinical prevalence for all Indian men.
of men assessed nationally are at Stage 3 or beyond — the point where the hairline and crown are visibly affected and regrowth becomes harder.
reports the highest share at Stage 3 or beyond, at 53.5%. Tamil Nadu reports the lowest, at 44.8%.
separate the highest and lowest states. Hair stage is remarkably consistent across India — geography moves it far less than age does.
in the West zone versus 48.2% in the North-East zone — the widest regional gap in this dataset.
are at Stage 5 or 6, where the front and crown have merged and the realistic goal shifts from regrowth to preservation.
report a pattern that is not Norwood staging at all — heavy diffuse shedding or a coin-size patch. Both need a different assessment.
How it splits across India
Every man who completed an assessment, as one bar. This is the baseline the state ranking below is measured against.
- Stage 1–2 · early
- Stage 3–4 · established
- Stage 5–6 · advanced
- Patchy or heavy shedding
All states and union territories combined · figures are % of respondents
At Stage 3 or beyond, ranked
Every state and union territory with a large enough sample to rank, highest to lowest.
Dashed line marks the national figure (50.4%). Ranked on “At Stage 3 or beyond”. States and union territories with too few responses to rank reliably are excluded from this chart and marked † in the table below.
The same data, six zones
Individual states move around; zones show whether the pattern is real.
- Stage 1–2 · early
- Stage 3–4 · established
- Stage 5–6 · advanced
- Patchy or heavy shedding
Zones follow the standard Indian regional grouping · figures are % within each zone
All 36 states & union territories
Published in full so it can be checked, quoted and cited. Every figure is a percentage of respondents in that state — no response counts are published.
| State / UT | Stage 1–2 | Stage 3–4 | Stage 5–6 | Patchy or heavy shedding | At Stage 3 or beyond |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andaman & Nicobar Islands† | 40.7% | 35.3% | 16.4% | 7.6% | 51.7% |
| Andhra Pradesh | 44.7% | 33.5% | 16.0% | 5.7% | 49.5% |
| Arunachal Pradesh† | 40.5% | 38.0% | 12.7% | 8.9% | 50.7% |
| Assam | 46.3% | 32.0% | 15.6% | 6.2% | 47.6% |
| Bihar | 46.9% | 32.8% | 14.8% | 5.6% | 47.6% |
| Chandigarh | 43.3% | 36.1% | 15.5% | 5.1% | 51.6% |
| Chhattisgarh | 42.5% | 36.1% | 16.6% | 4.9% | 52.7% |
| Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu† | 41.2% | 42.6% | 11.8% | 4.4% | 54.4% |
| Delhi | 43.8% | 35.8% | 15.1% | 5.2% | 50.9% |
| Goa | 41.8% | 35.8% | 17.0% | 5.4% | 52.8% |
| Gujarat | 43.1% | 35.8% | 15.9% | 5.2% | 51.7% |
| Haryana | 43.5% | 35.5% | 15.1% | 5.8% | 50.6% |
| Himachal Pradesh | 42.4% | 35.8% | 17.0% | 4.8% | 52.8% |
| Jammu & Kashmir | 44.0% | 35.1% | 16.5% | 4.4% | 51.6% |
| Jharkhand | 46.1% | 33.6% | 14.9% | 5.4% | 48.5% |
| Karnataka | 45.9% | 33.4% | 15.0% | 5.6% | 48.4% |
| Kerala | 43.9% | 32.1% | 18.3% | 5.7% | 50.4% |
| Ladakh† | 39.3% | 36.0% | 19.1% | 5.6% | 55.1% |
| Lakshadweep† | 66.7% | 33.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 33.3% |
| Madhya Pradesh | 43.2% | 35.7% | 16.0% | 5.1% | 51.7% |
| Maharashtra | 41.7% | 36.5% | 17.0% | 4.9% | 53.5% |
| Manipur | 43.7% | 35.2% | 14.7% | 6.4% | 49.9% |
| Meghalaya | 43.9% | 30.7% | 19.0% | 6.4% | 49.7% |
| Mizoram† | 45.3% | 32.4% | 17.8% | 4.4% | 50.2% |
| Nagaland | 43.2% | 33.2% | 16.7% | 6.9% | 49.9% |
| Odisha | 44.5% | 32.9% | 16.9% | 5.6% | 49.8% |
| Puducherry† | 41.5% | 37.7% | 14.2% | 6.6% | 51.9% |
| Punjab | 43.0% | 35.3% | 16.2% | 5.5% | 51.5% |
| Rajasthan | 45.6% | 34.9% | 14.0% | 5.5% | 48.9% |
| Sikkim† | 35.3% | 39.2% | 17.0% | 8.5% | 56.2% |
| Tamil Nadu | 49.0% | 31.7% | 13.1% | 6.1% | 44.8% |
| Telangana | 42.3% | 35.6% | 16.9% | 5.3% | 52.5% |
| Tripura† | 48.1% | 31.8% | 14.2% | 6.0% | 46.0% |
| Uttar Pradesh | 44.7% | 34.8% | 15.1% | 5.4% | 49.9% |
| Uttarakhand | 44.9% | 34.8% | 15.1% | 5.2% | 49.9% |
| West Bengal | 44.9% | 32.2% | 16.2% | 6.7% | 48.4% |
| All India | 44.2% | 34.7% | 15.7% | 5.4% | 50.4% |
† Sample too small to rank reliably — shown for completeness only.
What this actually tells you
The most useful thing in this chart is not which state tops it. It is how little distance there is between top and bottom. Pattern hair loss is driven by genetics and hormones, and neither respects a state border — so a spread of only a few percentage points across a country this size is exactly what you would expect.
What the differences do reflect
Where states do separate, the likeliest explanation is who is taking the assessment rather than who is losing hair. States with a longer history of online health services skew towards men who seek help earlier, which pushes their Stage 1–2 share up. States where awareness arrived later skew towards men who wait until the loss is obvious. The West zone leading at 53.0% is best read that way.
Why Stage 3 is the line that matters
Up to Stage 2, the follicle is still producing hair — thinner and shorter with each cycle, but alive. From Stage 3 onward the miniaturisation is far enough along that visible density has dropped and the window for meaningful regrowth is narrowing. It is the difference between protecting what you have and trying to recover what has gone.
The patterns that are not pattern loss
About 5.4% of men report something outside the Norwood scale entirely: sudden heavy shedding across the whole scalp, or a defined coin-size bald patch. These usually point somewhere else — a recent illness or crash diet, a thyroid or iron problem, or an autoimmune response. They are treated differently, and mistaking one for ordinary male pattern baldness costs months.
What to take from your own state
Very little, honestly. Your state tells you almost nothing about your own trajectory. Your age, your family history and how long you have already been shedding tell you a great deal. Use this chart for context, not for prediction.
Figures come from free online hair assessments completed by men in India, covering every state and union territory of India. Respondents selected one option describing their hair stage; near-identical response options were merged before analysis. Regions outside India were excluded, and variant spellings of the same state were merged. States and union territories with too few responses to be reliable are marked † in the table and left out of the ranking chart.
Everything on this page is published as a percentage of respondents. Response counts are deliberately not published, so the figures show proportions and trends rather than volumes.
This is self-reported, self-selected data from men already concerned about hair fall. It describes that group, not the general population, and it shows association rather than cause. Nothing here is a diagnosis or a substitute for a professional assessment.
Frequently asked
What are the stages of hair loss in men?
Male pattern hair loss is graded on the Norwood–Hamilton scale, running from Stage 1 to Stage 6 in this dataset. Stage 1 is full coverage with an intact hairline. Stage 2 is mild temple recession. Stage 3 is a clear M-shaped hairline with visibly reduced front density. Stage 4 adds a separate thinning patch at the crown. Stage 5 sees the crown and front thinning grow towards each other. Stage 6 is where they merge, leaving hair mainly at the sides and back.
Which Indian state has the most advanced hair loss?
Among states with a large enough sample to rank reliably, Maharashtra reports the highest share of men at Stage 3 or beyond, at 53.5%, followed by Himachal Pradesh at 52.8%. Tamil Nadu reports the lowest at 44.8%. The whole range spans only 8.7 percentage points, so these are narrow differences rather than dramatic ones.
Is hair loss worse in North India or South India?
Barely different. The West zone reports 53.0% of men at Stage 3 or beyond and the North-East zone reports 48.2% — a gap of roughly 4.8 percentage points. Regional differences in hair stage are far smaller than the differences this same dataset shows for stress and sleep.
At what stage should you start treatment for hair loss?
As early as you notice a change. Stages 1 and 2 are where treatment has the most to work with, because the follicle is still producing hair. By Stage 5 or 6 the follicles in the affected zone have largely stopped, and the realistic goal becomes holding on to what remains rather than regrowing what has gone.
Can Stage 3 hair loss be reversed?
Partially, in many cases, but not universally. At Stage 3 a good share of follicles are miniaturised rather than dead, so density can improve if the underlying drivers — hormonal, nutritional, scalp-related — are addressed together and sustained over months. What is realistic depends on how much of the loss is recent versus long-standing, which is what an assessment is for.
Why do some men have patchy hair loss instead of a receding hairline?
A defined, coin-size bald patch is usually alopecia areata, an autoimmune condition where the immune system attacks the follicle. It is unrelated to male pattern baldness and behaves differently — it can appear quickly and sometimes resolves on its own. Around 5.4% of men in this dataset report a patchy or heavy-shedding pattern rather than Norwood staging.
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