Stats

We don't often get accurate, up to date Canadian stats. So this is a bonus...for more immigration details, etc you can head over here. It's all just so fascinating. And, moreover it is my (our!) responsibility as pre-adoptive parents to get a better understanding of where some of our daughter's potentially future friends may live. The opportunity she will have to identify with others who share her culture, heritage, race, and loss (to name a few) is growing in leaps and bounds.

And I think it's exciting...don't you?

2008 INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION STATISTICS

News item has been prepared by the Adoption Council of Canada (ACC) and Family Helper.

(October 26, 2009). On Friday, the Adoption Council of Canada (ACC) received the 2008 international adoption statistics from Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC).

In 2008, 1,908 children from abroad found adoptive homes in Canada. This is an increase from 2007 and marks a return to numbers last seen in 2004.

1995: 2,010 1998: 2,222 2001: 1,874 2004: 1,955 2007: 1,713
1996: 2,061 1999: 2,019 2002: 1,926 2005: 1,871 2008: 1,908
1997: 1,800 2000: 1,866 2003: 2,180 2006: 1,535

INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS TO CANADA, 2003-2008 TOP 16 COUNTRIES, BY YEAR
Country of birth	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
China	1,113	1,001	973	608	662	429
U.S.	74	81	102	96	94	189
Ethiopia	14	34	31	61	134	183
Haiti	150	159	115	123	88	148
Philippines	58	62	70	53	90	118
South Korea	73	97	97	102	50	105
Vietnam	45	--	--	34	82	105
Russia	92	106	88	95	96	90
Ukraine	23	16	39	23	45	62
India	70	37	41	36	45	54
Colombia	37	38	18	31	34	53
Kazakhstan	8	--	--	10	37	48
Jamaica	43	23	22	19	20	22
Thailand	38	40	21	21	14	18
Belarus	50	32	--	--	--	--
Taiwan	26	15	30	--	--	--
Total, top 16 countries	1,768	1,655	1,586	1,239	1,386	1,624
Total, other countries	412	300	285	296	327	284
Grand Total	2,180	1,955	1,871	1,535	1,713	1,908