Missing children

At the request of a member country, INTERPOL can issue a yellow notice to help locate missing persons, especially minors. These notices are circulated on an international basis and recorded in INTERPOL's database of missing and abducted children.

Only those children who are subject to a yellow notice are listed on this website. Therefore, of the significant number of children who go missing every year, only a few hundred appear here.

In this section you can:

• Search the missing children database;
• Browse the database records in alphabetical order;
• Read about the legislation of INTERPOL member states on missing children;
• See the conditions of use for information about missing children on this website.

If you have any information about any of the missing children listed on this website, please contact the national police in your country.