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Not ever so many.

Besides it's such a loose question it can't be answered very meaningfully.

If by stuck you mean incapacitated by injury, the numbers are very low. Some rescue call-out are to aid people trapped by floods or who are simply overdue through having become lost or badly under-estimating their estimated time out.

Being literally "stuck" (wedged in a squeeze to the extent that rescue is necessary) is very rare.

You'd have to trawl through the cave rescue organisations' or national caving bodies' annual reports for the particular country you are asking about, to discover the statistics; but in the United Kingdom's largest and busiest caving area, the North-West Pennines (Yorkshire and Lancashire), the number of actual underground rescues for any reason is only around a dozen a year.

To my knowledge the UK's worst fatal caving accident was also the world's worst: Mossdale Caverns - in I think 1959 but I may be wrong about the year - when all 6 cavers in one team were overwhelmed and drowned by a violent flood. Fatalities generally are rare, and such incidents as that are, fortunately, extremely rare.

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