Where did they go?

According to the US Department of States, Bureau of Consular Affairs the following number of children where adopted by the United States of America from Guatemala:

According to Guatemalan authorities as they published their figures to the Hague Conference on Private International Law, the following number of children were sent to the USA for adoption:

With the exception of 2003 all years show Guatemale saying they are exporting more children to the USA than the USA says they import.

Altogether there are 247 children missing from these figures.

Where did they go?

Maybe they accidentally got shipped to the United Kingdom, cause they, according to their book keeping,  have (except for 2004) imported more children from Guatemala than Guatemalan figures say:

UK figures:

A quick check of some other European countries revealed the figures don't match. In general Guatemalan book keeping records mention more children being adopted by foreign countries than those countries say the have adopted from Guatemala.

Maybe they got mistaken for Colombian children, cause Spain claims to have adopted far more children from that country than Colombia says they have sent for adoption to Spain:

Whatever is going on here, it is clear the international community is incapable of keeping track of  children in the circuit of international adoption. How can the child's best interest be served when no one is capable to count the children? Something even a goose can do.