By the end of 2020, 636 children, including 549 from previous years, were yet to be traced. In 2019, 549 children were yet to be traced.
Around 58% of the untraced children are girls while 264 are boys. With the increase in number of untraced children, the total tracing rate has dropped to 80.7% in 2020 compared to 83.3% in 2019.
Last year, a total of 2,745 children went missing, of which 2,092 were girls, accounting for 76% of cases.
In 2019, the number of cases of missing children stood at 2,476, however, the Percentage of missing girl children increased by 6% in 2020 compared to 2019. On the bright side, 2,658 children who went missing in 2020 were traced the same year.