NCIC Statistics - provided by the FBI-NCIC for media relations -- USA & Canada ~ UPDATED ~
Current as of the August 31, 2006 indexing
According to the FBI-NCIC there are (approximately) 108,145 Missing Persons listed in their system. Children and adult. (DOWN from last months total of 110,995) There are (approximately) 6,118 Unidentified Persons listed their system. Children and adult.
Most Missing City: as of 8-31-06 Washington DC has more missing person's than any other city (listed with the NCIC) with 3,841missing persons. (Up from last months total of 3,825)
Most Unidentified City: as of 8-31-06 New York City has more unidentified person's than any other city (listed with the NCIC) with 407 unidentified persons (Up from last months total of 399)
As of 1-30-06
Of the 108, 949 missing...only 1,435 of them are Canadian numbers.
Of the 5,972 unidentified...only 50 of them are Canadian numbers.
The rest are USA and it's territories.
The numbers fluctuate due to newly entered cases and removal of resolved cases.
A spike/ drop in numbers does not necessarily mean an increase in missing and unidentified, it can means that more cases are being entered/ removed into the system.
Older cases are often added to the NCIC years after the actual event initially took place. Often cases are often purged and / or expire. For additional information: http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cjisd/missingpersons.htm
Gender specifics - as of August 2005 - are 1,474 active unidentified female entries, 4,264 active unidentified male entries and 213 active unidentified unknown sex entries.
Some experts feel that these are only 10-50% of the actual numbers as not all cases are / were reported to the NCIC by law enforcement. We hope to encourage more agencies to take full advantage of this available resource. We hope to see a retroactive approach to the submission process as well.
The International Homicide Investigators Association estimates there are more than 40,000 unidentified dead nationally. (USA)