International Adoption Statistics

World Summary

By Receiving Country

By Country of Origin

Australian Statistics

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Ranking	Country		Period	Population 1)	No. of Adoptions	Adoption Rate 2)	Number of Countries 3)
							Last Few Years	Most Recently
1		Norway	2007	4.6 million	426	9.17	23	17
2		Spain	2007	40.5 million	3648	9.01	54	41
3		Sweden	2007	9 million	800	8.84	114	55
4		Denmark	2007	5.5 million	429	7.82	36	19
5		Ireland	2006	4.2 million	313	7.53	24	14
6		Italy	2008	58.1 million	3978	6.84	84	61
7		USA	2007	303.8 million	18748	6.17	> 44	20
8		Netherlands	2006	16.6 million	977	5.87	> 16	> 15
9		Switzerland	2007	7.6 million	404	5.33	> 11	> 11
10		France	2008	64.1 million	3271	5.11	> 78	> 11
11		Canada	2006	33.2 million	1535	4.62	> 36	> 26
12		Iceland	2006	0.3 million	14	4.60	20	6
13		Finland	2006	5.2 million	218	4.16	11	9
14		Israel	2006	7.1 million	176	2.47	> 12	5
15		Australia	2008 - 2009	20.6 million	349	1.69	76	34
16		Germany	2006	82.4 million	1388	1.69	> 39	> 35
17		United Kingdom	2007	60.9 million	356	0.58	> 70	> 37
More statistics: Hague Convention Statistics

¹⁾ Population is taken from The CIA World Factbook.
²⁾ Adoption Rate is calculated as Number of Adoptions per 100,000 inhabitants for a country.
³⁾ Number of Countries is the number of countries there has been adoptions from.