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Statistics of Interracial Adoption Interracial adoption grew significantly from 1999 to 2005 where it reached its peak year at 585 adoptions to the United States. Following 2005, interracial adoption into the US declined with 288 adoptions in the year 2011. From 1999 to 2011, there has been 233,934 adoptions into the United States from other countries across the globe. Of the total adoptions, 39.4% (92,202 children) were under the age of 12 months (http://adoption.state.gov/about_us/statistics.php). Also, 63% (146,516 children) were female. Overall, children from China were the most common to be adopted. 66,630 were from China and Russia was the second largest country with 45,112 children. In the United States, California had the highest number of homes that were opened to international children. California had 16,792 children and New York had 16,191. All of the states had participated from 1999 to 2011 in interracial adoption.

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