Considering around 3 million women are abused in the US alone every year I'd say not big at all
And India's rate? 5 time higher? 10 times higher? they don't know, because they don't have adequate records.
This is what is reported:
In recent years, there has been an alarming rise in atrocities against women in India. Every 26 minutes a woman is molested. Every 34 minutes a rape takes place. Every 42 minutes a sexual harassment incident occurs. Every 43 minutes a woman is kidnapped. And every 93 minutes a woman is burnt to death over dowry.
One-quarter of the reported rapes involve girls under the age of 16 but the vast majority are never reported. Although the penalty is severe, convictions are rare
A study of amniocentesis in a Bombay hospital found that 96 percent of female fetuses were aborted, compared with only a small percentage of male fetuses.
Sonalda Desai reports that there are posters in Bombay advertising sex-determination tests that read, "It is better to pay 500 Rs. now than 50,000 Rs. (in dowry) later."
In India, 6,000 dowry murders are committed each year
Who are the Victims?
WIN News (1999) reports that in Mumbai, 60% of rape victims are between the ages of three and sixteen, with 50% below the age of ten.
Further adding to these startling numbers are the reported “disappearances” of rape victims in Delhi. Off Our Backs (2000) found that almost 70% of Delhi’s rape victims (those who reported the crime to the police), 51% of which were minors, simply disappeared.