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#Thread🧵:
Let us talk facts and see if US @StateDept's Travel Advisory actually holds up with facts and is consistent.
All data is in public domain.

Disclaimer: Rape is a crime and needs to be called out wherever it happens. This thread is meant for informative purposes.

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As per NCRB data of 2019 and various other sources, the number of rape cases in India were approximately 32000 (registered).
A total of 45,536 cases were under investigation and had a conviction rate of 27%.
Previous years, the number of cases average to 27000-28000.

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Now let us compare the above data with that of US.
As per @RAINN, sourced from @TheJusticeDept, Office of Justice Programs, Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Crime Victimization Survey, 2019, there were an average of 463,634 rape cases per year.

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Comparing the data, the US has FOURTEEN times more rape cases than India. 14.4885 times more, to be precise.

Few technicalities that people use to get out of this is the same logic "statisticians" from US media outlets used during Covid second wave. Remember the "Estimates"?

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To an extent, I can agree with them.
Unreported rape cases do exist. Even if I take into account that the US has ZERO unreported rape cases (HIGHLY UNLIKELY) and India has at least TWICE as many rape cases than what NCRB mentions, the US STILL has 7.244 times more rape cases.