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Missing Children Statistics

The fact-check is about the accuracy of the statistic that 2,300 children go missing every day, including the methods used to calculate this number and the potential for this number to be misleading.

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Feb 1, 2026

How have headline estimates like '2,300 children missing per day' been derived and critiqued?

Headline figures such as "" typically come from broad, aggregated estimates—most prominently the and advocacy groups that cite them—which count many different categories of missing-child reports, not ...