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Lost item statistic

Below you will find alarming statistics about lost items:

Most found items contain no reference to the owner. 
Therefore these found items cannot be returned to the owner
by the police or other public institutions 
and unidentified items are sold at public auctions. 

 

             

About 12,000 laptops
are lost each week

in US airports alone.

56% of us misplace our laptop
each month.

    

Every year
80 Millionen pices of luggage
are lost at airports.

That´s:

6.6 Million per month,

15.348.461 per week

219.178 in a single day.

 

    

2,000 items are lost
at New York’s Grand Central Station each month.

Nearly 15,000 items are turned into the Long Island Railroad office annually.

Major city transit authorities receive over 200 lost items per day.

113 cell phones are lost or stolen every minute in the U.S.
That´s:
         6,780  in a single hour,
     162,720  per day,
  4,881,600  per month,
58,579,200  in one year.

120,000 cell phones are lost
annually
in Chicago taxi cabs.

25% of Americans lose or damage their cell phone each year.

    

According to FBI statistics
over 1.5 million bicycles
are stolen every year.

While half of those bikes are recovered by police, less than 5 % are returned due to lack of a way to identify the owner

 



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