Missing people statistics

We will be using missing poeple statistics at the end of our sequence, as the view is the picture of the four girls again we will have a voice over repeating these statistics.

- In a 1999 study Newiss found, across three sampled police forces, that the average number of missing person reports filed in that year was 3.6 per 1000 people in the population. (Newiss, 1999). Calculated for a UK population (as at mid 2006) of 60,587,000, this gives an estimate of 218,113 missing person reports every year. The total number of missing person reports each year is likely fall in the range of 210,000 to 230,000 in any one year.

- have estimated that at least 100,000 children go missing every year, or “one every five minutes”. (PACT, 2005: 18). Several studies have found that young people, aged under 18, account for around two thirds of all police missing person reports. This would suggest that the number of people under 18 reported missing each year could be as high as 140,000 to 153,000.

-Between the ages of 13 and 17 years, girls are more likely to be reported missing than boys. 71 per cent of 13-17 year olds reported missing to Missing People (1999-2000) were female.