Minors accounted for nearly half of all people who went missing last year, according to official figures.

Data tabled in Parliament by family minister Michael Farrugia in answer to a question by PN MP Karol Aquilina shows that 798 people were reported missing in 2018, of whom 382 were minors and just 58 were over 60.

The share of minors was even higher the previous year, when 655 out of 932 missing people were under 18.

In 2018, women made up around two-thirds of those reported missing, continuing a trend visible in figures from 2017 and 2016, when women outnumbered men twice and three times over respectively.

Of all those reported missing last year, the vast majority were found, while 39 remain missing. This is more than twice the number that went unfound in 2017, and the highest since 2013.

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