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Statistics for International Adoptions to the United States for Fiscal Year 2010The Department of State has posted its 2010 Fiscal Year Annual Report. It makes grim reading. Total international adoptions again dropped, this year to 11,059. This number, however, does not include the around 1,100 children who came to the United States through the special Haitian humanitarian parole program which was in effect between Januay 18 through April 14, 2011). Of the 3,415 adoptions from China, over half were special needs or waiting adoptions. The number of adoptions from Russia again decreased, in 2010 to 1,082. The country which reflected a significant increase in international adoption was Ethiopia-the total of 2, 513 made Ethiopia the second largest sending country to the U.S. For the complete report see http://adoption.state.gov/content/pdf/fy2010_annual_report.pdf. Statistics for International Adoptions to the United States for Fiscal Year 2009The 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
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
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