Police Scotland has released its annual figures on missing person reports in Scotland.

The data shows that, of those who were reported missing:

• 64 per cent were children

• 53 per cent related to people aged from 13 –16 years

• More 2,600 people went missing more than once

• Men are more likely to go missing (58 per cent)

• 24 per cent of investigations involved someone with a mental health vulnerability

• Two per cent involved someone with dementia

• 99 per cent were traced alive, 0.4 per cent were found dead and 0.1 per cent remain untraced

• Of those found dead, 77 per cent were adult men