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Calamities displace 23 lakh every year in India

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NEW DELHI: India ranks top among world's most disaster prone countries with rising number of homeless people at an average annual displacement of 2.3 million, uprooted due to calamities such as floods, cyclone or earthquakes.

A UN study, to be released on the International Day for Disaster Reduction on Friday, forecast a continued rise in homelessness. The paper says eight of the top ten most disaster prone countries are in South and South-east Asia, India being on the top, followed by China which has annual average displacement at 1.3 million, a million people less affected than India.

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The study, A Global Disaster Displacement Risk Model, has accounted for displacement from the destruction of housing caused by earthquakes, tsunamis, riverine floods and tropical cyclones. Slow on-set disasters attributed to drought and sea-level rise are not included, the UNISDR said.

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