How many bitcoins do you think have been lost forever?
I personally think its around 3 to 4 million.
If you will research the top richest bitcoin wallet addresses at google , you will find some of them are now inactive but we cannot be sure that this coins are considered lost since they are just inactive. I also think that you should rename your thread to how much coins that have been inactive for a couple years.
In my own opinion there is no lost coins. They are just inactivr that maybe someday it will be active again.