# Query for counting docs per type?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-counting-docs-per-type/33004
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 26, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-counting-docs-per-type/33004 "2015-10-26T17:01:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mos)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2015, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-counting-docs-per-type/33004/1 "2015-10-26T17:01:18Z")
We are using the following request, to return the number of documents per doc-type. But it just lists all types with more then zero documents. How can we also return all types that have no document yet?
```
GET /myIndex/_search?search_type=count
{
"aggs": {
"count_by_type": {
"terms": {
"field": "_type"
}
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 5:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-counting-docs-per-type/33004/2 "2015-10-27T05:33:35Z")
You can't do this because there can never be a doc without a `_type`.
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### Author:  [@mos](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mos)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2015, 8:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-counting-docs-per-type/33004/3 "2015-10-27T08:17:11Z")
Ok, so I need to read all types separately, to catch those with zero hits? Is there a simple query to read just all available types per index. (\_mapping is to much information)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-counting-docs-per-type/33004/4 "2017-07-05T23:42:30Z")