A total of 136 earthquakes rocked India in 2015 and an analysis of data of the last three decades indicates that there has neither been an increase or decrease in the seismicity rate in the country.

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There are 943 females for every 1,000 males in the country.

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Cases of cancer, considered the worst of all maladies have been rising 2-3% across India. If 10.28 lakh Indians were diagnosed with cancer in 2011, the number swelled by roughly 9% to 11.18 lakh in 2014. Correspondingly, the number of deaths increased, from 4.52 lakh in 2011 to 4.92 lakh in 2014. Every year, about 4 out of 10 cancer patients (or 40%) die.

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After Syria, a country in a bloody civil war, India is estimated to be the second largest source country for international migrants between 2010 and 2015. UN data on net migration (immigrants minus the number of emigrants) estimates 2.6 million net outwards migration.

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