Statistics for International Adoptions to the United States for Fiscal Year 2009

The Department of State has released its final numbers for international adoptions to the United States for 2009. As expected the figures show a drastic decline in international adoption: the total number plunged 25 percent in a year to 12, 753, the lowest number since 1997. But even that number is artificially high because it includes over 1,000 children adopted from Guatemala and Vietnam, both of which are now closed to international adoption. Moreover the numbers do not reflect the change in direction of the China program. Still our largest sending country, (although less than half the size it was five years ago) the Chinese IA program is now over fifty percent a waiting child program.

World Total for Fiscal Years

2009 - 12,753
2008 - 17,475
2007 - 19,609
2006 - 20,680
2005 - 22,728
2004 - 22,884
2003 - 21,616
2002 - 20,099
2001 - 19,237
2000 - 17,718
1999 - 16,363
1998 - 15,774
1997 - 12,743
1996 - 10,641
1995 - 8,987
1994 - 8,333
1993 - 7,377
1992 - 6,472
1991 - 8,481

Source: http://adoption.state.gov/news/total_chart.html

	FY 2009	FY 2008	FY 2007	FY 2006	FY 2005
1	China 3001	Guatemala 4122	China 5453	China 6492	China 7903
2	Ethiopia 2277	China 3911	Guatemala 4727	Guatemala 4135	Russia 4631
3	Russia 1586	Russia 1857	Russia 2303	Russia 3702	Guatemala 3783
4	South Korea 1080	Ethiopia 1724	Ethiopia 1254	South Korea 1373	South Korea 1628
5	Guatemala 756	South Korea 1065	South Korea 938	Ethiopia 731	Ukraine 824
6	Ukraine 610"	Vietnam 748	Vietnam 828	Kazakhstan 588	Kazakhstan 755
7	Vietnam 481	Ukraine 490	Ukraine 613	Ukraine 463	Ethiopia 442
8	Haiti 330	Kazakhstan 380	Kazakhstan 547	Liberia 353	India 323
9	India 297	India 308	India 411	Colombia 344	Colombia 287
10	Kazakhstan 295	Colombia 306	Liberia 314	India 319	Philippines 268
11	Philippines 281	Haiti 301	Colombia 309	Haiti 310	Haiti 234
12	China - Taiwan 253	Philippines 292	Philippines 260	Philippines 248	Liberia 183
13	Colombia 238	Liberia 254	Haiti 191	China - Taiwan 187	China - Taiwan 141
14	Nigeria 110	China - Taiwan 219	China - Taiwan 184	Vietnam 163	Mexico 88
15	Ghana 103	Nigeria 149	Mexico 89	Mexico 70	Poland 73
16	Mexico 72	Mexico 105	Poland 84	Poland 67	Thailand 71
17	Uganda 69	Ghana 97	Thailand 66	Nepal 66	Brazil 66
18	Thailand 56	Kyrgyzstan 78	Brazil 55	Brazil 66	Nigeria 65
19	Jamaica 54	Poland 77	Kyrgyzstan 54	Nigeria 62	Jamaica 62
20	Poland 50	Thailand 59	Uganda 54	Thailand 56	Nepal 62