Why are so few missing young people and children on the missing person websites?

[GothamStraights]

I have looked at missing children websites for Canada and searched different provinces, and there are very very few missing listed, and many are missing from decades ago. I have often read or heard that hundreds of thousands of children go missing each year in Canada (much higher than 50,000 they claim) yet there are barely any listings; only 3 pages and half again, are from ages ago. Can anyone shed light on this curiosity?
Here is the Alberta Missing Kids page with only a handful of missing kids and the latest is from the year 2000!
I know there are many more in their databases but to show only a handful is confusing. Most of these sites do not have a look up feature.
At least I haven't seen more than one or two. Most are very vague.

Missing Children Database

MissingKids.ca – Missing Children Database

missingkids.ca

Here is the all of Canada missing kids page:

Missing Children Database

MissingKids.ca – Missing Children Database

missingkids.ca

Here is a GOV website with ONE page of a handful of missing people and the latest being listed as of 2018?
Something's not right with these listings.

Home

www.canadasmissing.ca

UPDATE: I looked through the FAQ's and found these answers.

Frequently Asked Questions

www.canadasmissing.ca

 

[Bigditch]

Agree

To post more missing children would mean they would have to confront a much larger problem.

Human trafficking

 

[cenazoic]

The missingkids.ca database is specifically for “long-term missing children”:

Missing Children Database

MissingKids.ca – Missing Children Database

missingkids.ca

 

[MassGuy]

I have looked at missing children websites for Canada and searched different provinces, and there are very very few missing listed, and many are missing from decades ago. I have often read or heard that hundreds of thousands of children go missing each year in Canada (much higher than 50,000 they claim) yet there are barely any listings; only 3 pages and half again, are from ages ago. Can anyone shed light on this curiosity?
Here is the Alberta Missing Kids page with only a handful of missing kids and the latest is from the year 2000!
I know there are many more in their databases but to show only a handful is confusing. Most of these sites do not have a look up feature.
At least I haven't seen more than one or two. Most are very vague.

Missing Children Database

MissingKids.ca – Missing Children Database

missingkids.ca

Here is the all of Canada missing kids page:

Missing Children Database

MissingKids.ca – Missing Children Database

missingkids.ca

Here is a GOV website with ONE page of a handful of missing people and the latest being listed as of 2018?
Something's not right with these listings.

Home

www.canadasmissing.ca

UPDATE: I looked through the FAQ's and found these answers.

Frequently Asked Questions

www.canadasmissing.ca

The average does seem to be around 50k annually. Almost all of those cases are resolved (98% is the number I see all the time), as they involve miscommunication, runaways, taken by a non custodial parent, etc.

It looks like the cases there are submitted by law enforcement agencies, so you'd only see ones that had gone on for a long time, or perhaps involve some sort of criminal activity.

 

[penelopemcswain]

It's very important that people understand that while huge numbers of people of all ages go missing each year, the vast majority are resolved very quickly. Meaning, they turn up in a few days or hours. Often they weren't really "missing" at all (think: kids who were just playing a hiding game in closet and fell asleep or an adult whose phone charger stopped working on a road trip). We're living in an epidemic of conspiracy theories that thrive on clicks and end up skewing reality. Human trafficking is a serious problem, but it's nowhere near the scale that online charlatans would lead one to believe.

 

[Bigditch]

One child being trafficked is too many.