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.
However, California's rate of missing persons is roughly average, at 7.6 missing for every 100,000 people. The highest rate of missing persons by far is in sparsely populated Alaska, with 163 missing people per 100,000 of the population— far beyond any other state.
Each year, around 30,000 people are reported missing in Australia—one person every 18 minutes.
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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.
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 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.
It is estimated that 2,300 children are missing every day in the United States . Children can become missing for many reasons.
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.
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.
Reasons for disappearance may include: To escape domestic abuse. Leaving home to live in an unknown place under a new identity. Becoming the victim of kidnapping.
According to the NamUs database, there are 600,000 people declared missing every year. Alongside that statistic, there are 4,400 unidentified bodies discovered every year. That means only 0.7333% of people who go missing are found and unable to be identified. The others are either found, or they are not.
Estimates vary on the number of children who go missing in China every year. Some put the number at 70,000, others say it's closer to 200,000. Regardless, most studies agree that only a very small number — perhaps as few as 0.1% — are ever found and reunited with their families.
The largest number of minors reported missing in the NCMEC's 2020 database were between the ages of 12 and 17. This reflects the fact that the vast majority of missing children are runaways, and older children are both more likely and capable to run away.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., 20-month-old son of the famous aviator and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was kidnapped about 9:00 p.m., on March 1, 1932, from the nursery on the second floor of the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
Shayla Phillips: Tasmania police confirm missing four-year-old girl found safe and well. A four-year-old girl who went missing in southern Tasmania has been found alive and well.
Cleo Smith, a four-year-old Australian girl, disappeared on 16 October 2021 from a campsite in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia (WA). Police allege that she was abducted by a 36-year-old man from Carnarvon. She was found alive and well on 3 November, after the man's home was raided by police.
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.
In what The Telegraph called "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history," 3-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared from a vacation home in Portugal while her parents ate dinner just 180 feet away in May 2007.
Ultimately, most children who go missing are found. But just finding the child isn't always the end of the situation. If there's been a custody dispute, parents often need to address the custody problems, go to family court, and otherwise get legal assistance.