International Adoption Statistics

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Peter Selman

Ranking	Country		Period	Population 1)	No. of Adoptions	Adoption Rate 2)	Number of Countries 3)
							Last Few Years	Most Recently
1		Ireland	2010	4.2 million	291	6.92	50	33
2		Norway	2011	4.7 million	297	6.37	> 25	> 10
3		Spain	2011	40.5 million	2573	6.35	59	31
4		Denmark	2011	5.5 million	338	6.14	45	22
5		Sweden	2011	9.1 million	538	5.91	> 124	24
6		Iceland	2011	0.3 million	18	5.87	23	5
7		Canada	2010	33.5 million	1946	5.81	> 45	> 30
8		Italy	2012	58.1 million	3106	5.34	> 91	> 32
9		Switzerland	2008	7.6 million	383	5.04	> 11	> 10
10		France	2009	64.1 million	3019	4.71	> 95	75
11		Finland	2009	5.3 million	220	4.19	> 27	> 20
12		Netherlands	2009	16.7 million	682	4.08	> 36	30
13		USA	2011	307.2 million	9320	3.03	> 142	102
14		Germany	2008	82.3 million	1243	1.51	> 39	> 35
15		Israel	2012	7.2 million	93	1.29	> 12	> 3
16		Australia	2011 - 2012	21.3 million	149	0.70	> 77	> 8
17		United Kingdom	2008	61.1 million	225	0.37	> 73	> 33
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.