Rapes in India: annual statistics

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22,172 rapes in 2010; 24,923 in 2012

According to Wikipedia the following number of rapes took place in India in the years between 2004 and 2010.

 

2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010
18233	18359	19348	20737	21467	21397	22172

 

 

If we take the 2010 figure, the highest of these seven years (2004-2010), it works out to 60.7 rapes a day; 2.53 rapes every hour; or one rape every 23.7 minutes, in a country of 1.2 billion people.

According to India's NCRB there were 24,923 rapes in 2012