FY2012 US Adoption Statistics Reported UPDATED

See the pdf at this link.

This year the total number is down another 7 percent. FY2012 total is 8,668. Table 4 lists the number of Hague convention cases: 3237 total or 37.3% of the total international placements. While better than the 29% Hague Convention adoptions of the FY2011 total placements, that is still pretty pathetic and is not mentioned in the maudlin media articles that discuss the drop in overall number.

For the second year in a row, the top 5 countries are in the same order:

China 2697 UP from FY2011 2,509…(3,401 in FY2010)

Ethiopia 1568 down from FY2011 1,727…(2,513 in FY2010)

Russia 748 down from FY2011 970…(1,082 in FY2010)

South Korea 627 down from FY2011 736…(863 in FY2010)

Ukraine 395 down from FY2011 632… (445 in FY2010 and 610 in FY2009).

The countries exceeding 100 placements to the US are as follows:

Congo 240

Uganda 238

Nigeria 197

Colombia 195

Taiwan 177

Ghana 171

India 159

Haiti 154

Bulgaria and Philippines 125

Philippines is down almost 50% and moved 8 positions down the list from last year.

Congo’s placements grew 80% and moved  up 6 positions.

India is down 5 positions due to a policy shift in increasing domestic placements while purposefully decreasing international placements.

Colombia’s placements were almost the same from FY2011 to FY2012 despite a look into irregularities. It dropped one position.

Uganda moved up one position keeping placements above 200 for the second year in a row.

Taiwan’s placements slightly decreased but it remains in the same ranking as last year.

Nigeria moved up 3 positions and placed almost the same number as FY2010.

Ghana’s placements are up 71% and it moved up two positions.

Bulgaria is up by 66% and now surpassed the 100 mark.

Haiti went up five-fold from FY2011.

Jamaica dropped from 100 placements in FY2011 to 43 in FY2012

Latvia came in as 16th largest placing country with 81 placements, up from 56. Some groups are greatly pushing this country as the next big thing.

Morocco was up to 57 placements in FY2012 which was a 24% increase.

99 outgoing adoptions were reported. 64 were sent from Florida. Florida has been a stand-out for the number of agreements it has made with foreign countries. Canada and Netherlands received the most US children.This outgoing adoption total reported by DOS in the past has not been accurate.

The oddest statistic is Median ASP adoption fees with South Africa being $160,217.

DOS claims 71 disruptions involving 76 children  reported from 49 jurisdictions. No other details were disclosed.

REFORM Puzzle Piece

Update: “China is still the No 1 overseas source for US families to adopt a child. And by far. According to the latest figures from the US State Department’s Office of Children’s Issues, of the 8,688 children Americans adopted from overseas in 2012, 2,697 were from China, a ratio of roughly 1-out-of-3, which has been true for the last 14 years.

The next closest country in 2012 was Ethiopia with 1,568 children, followed by Russia, 748, Republic of Korea, 627, and the Ukraine, 395.”

“Data from the State Department office also track the average number of days to complete an adoption. China, at 267 days, is at the mid- to lower-end of the scale, with Mexico, averaging 770, the longest, and Panama, at 53, the quickest). On the median fees, again China falls in the mid range at $15,600, with Ecuador, Kenya and Sri Lanka at the low end at $6,200, and at the high end South Africa, which sent seven children to the US for adoption in 2012 with median fees of $160,217 for each. ”

China remains No 1 source for US overseas adoptions

[China Daily 6/12/13 by Chris Davis]