A woman reportedly went missing on Wednesday evening.
A woman reportedly went missing on Wednesday evening.
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Per the database’s 2024 statistics, Alaska has the highest rate of missing people at 163.76 missing people per 100,000 of the population, while California has the highest number of missing people at 3,010. South Carolina has a total of 270 missing people open cases.
Newsweek made a map of the active number of missing people per state in February 2024 based on the Nam Us data. At the time, Oklahoma had the highest percentage of missing people per the figures, at 16 missing per 100,000 residents.
Dr. Jesse Goliath, an assistant anthropology professor at Mississippi State University, told Newsweek that the real figures may be higher than the federal statistics show. Goliath said, “In general, there is no federal requirement for reporting missing persons cases to NamUS. So, without mandatory reporting by law enforcement, the number of actual missing persons in each state is actually much higher than reported.”
The professor launched a separate project for Mississippi called the Mississippi Repository for Missing and Unidentified Persons and noted that where the Nam Us database recorded 188 missing-person cases in Mississippi, the Mississippi Repository found 497 cases.
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