Each year, around 30,000 people are reported missing in Australia—one person every 18 minutes.
In Australia, more than 38,000 missing persons reports are received by police each year. While most people are found within a short period of time, there remain approximately 2,600 long term missing persons; those who have been missing for more than three months.
Forever wondering. New research shows 38,000 Australians are reported missing each year, around half of which are young people. Fortunately, most of those missing people are located alive within days of the report being made. However a small percentage of those reported missing have never been located.
Many people go missing every year, with the U.S. reporting the highest number. According to the NCIC, 521,705 were reported missing in 2021.
Australian research has uncovered that common reasons for going missing could include a want to escape from their current situation. This desire to runaway might stem form financial debt, relationship woes or family disputes. Whatever the reason, the missing person feels their only option is to flee.
And one state stood out as the kidnap capital of Australia, according to crime data by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released on Thursday. Out of the 453 kidnappings and abductions, the highest number, 210, were in New South Wales.
Each year, around 30,000 people are reported missing in Australia—one person every 18 minutes. The 30,000 people exceed the total number of victims, reported to police for homicide, sexual assault, and unarmed robbery combined.
Children under the age of 6 are most frequently targeted for family abductions and these often occur in the midst of bitter divorce or child custody battles between parents.
Going missing is not a crime. If you have been reported as missing it means that someone is concerned about your safety and welfare. You can contact Crime Stoppers or police to let them know you are safe and well and your privacy will be maintained.
Australia has a very high rate of child abductions compared to the rest of the world. According to the Australian Missing Persons Register, more than 150 children are abducted by a parent every year and many of these children are never located.
In 2020, there were more than 51,000 missing persons reports made to police in Australia, which is more than 140 on every day of the year.
In Australia, an estimated 20,000 children are reported missing every year. Australian Federal Police, National Coordination Centre. In Canada, an estimated 45,288 children are reported missing each year.
Missing Persons In NSW
On average 28 people go missing every day in NSW. Most people are located almost immediately however around 1% go on to become Long Term Missing Persons. The national definition of 'Long Term' is any person missing for over 90 days.
According to our research and experience, out of the half a million children that go missing every year in the United States, nearly all of them are found. That's 97.8%.
Three Types of Perpetrators
Although not a majority of family kidnaping perpetrators, females commit a substantially larger portion of the family abductions than they do of acquaintance abductions (16 percent), stranger abduc- tions (5 percent), or violent crimes in general (24 percent).
Gender. 78% of the victims who are abducted into situations of trafficking are women. This is slightly higher than the proportion of women in the global dataset, which is 71% (see The Global Dataset at a Glance dashboard).
Criminal groups often kidnap tourists, then force them to withdraw money from ATMs. In some locations this is known as 'express kidnapping'. It is common in countries in Central and South America, especially Mexico and Colombia, but occurs in other countries.
Kidnapping rate - Country rankings
The highest value was in Belgium: 10.3 kidnappings per 100,000 people and the lowest value was in Bermuda: 0 kidnappings per 100,000 people.
Furthermore, Haitians being kidnapped are not just the wealthy or from the professional class, but include Haitians barely surviving these turbulent times. Haiti is now the kidnapping capitol of the world.
Young people go missing for lots of reasons including family conflict, wanting to become independent, being a victim of crime, forgetting to tell someone where they are going, mental health problems, drugs/alcohol abuse, other abuse and neglect.
One of the most prevalent crimes in Australia is sexual assault, with the largest proportion of victims being female.