Date: 01/23/14
International adoptions: a first look at the data of 2013. Crisis confirmed, couples fall (-7.2%) and adopted children (9.1%)
statistiche350By the Commission for International Adoptions reach tentative signs of life on the corporate website, it is in fact appeared an extract from the annual statistical report containing the data of adoptions for the year 2013 , which will be published in full in February.
There is a crisis, and it is confirmed: during the past year, there was in fact a decrease of 9.1% in the number of children adottat i, which follows the actual "collapse" of 2012 (-22.8% ). Since 2010, the year when there was a peak with 4,130 adopted children, began a steady and gradual downward trend, which led, in fact, the "only" 2,825 children in 2013: less than 1350, for an overall decrease of nearly 32% in 4 years .
The decline of the past year, according to the CAI, was due mostly to the sharp slowdown in international adoption in Colombia, but also in Brazil and Ukraine. Favorable instead was recorded in Ethiopia, Poland and Vietnam.