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The number of missing person reports involving youth in 2024, as recorded by the NCIC.
Official counts of “” in the depend on how “missing” is defined: law‑enforcement database entries (single-year NCIC counts), reports to nonprofit hotlines, and older incidence‑study estimates all give...
The number of missing-children "cases" in the United States in 2024 varies by data source and definition: the FBI’s NCIC recorded 533,936 missing-person records entered system-wide in 2024 (all ages) ...
Official sources and advocacy groups agree that in the is large, persistent and hard to summarize in a single annual number because definitions and data sources vary; national studies such as and orga...