Overview
- Authorities logged 25,086 disappearance reports in 2025 covering 16,024 people, with 90.7% of cases clarified.
- Most investigations conclude quickly, with 55% resolved in the first three days and more than 72% within a week.
- Minors dominate the caseload, as 61% of reports involved 13–17-year-olds and 4,563 people were repeat cases concentrated among youths.
- Criminally motivated disappearances were rare, with 86 cases recorded versus 961 involuntary absences and 7,430 voluntary ones.
- Regional patterns show Madrid with the highest share tied to minors (70.4% of its reports), while 928 public alerts and Schengen-wide notices supported searches, and the recent recovery of Francisca Cadenas’s remains with arrests underscored long-term investigative work.