Click the headings below to be directed to reports and research.  Below you will find direct links to one-pagers and quick stats and facts in the form of tables, charts and graphs.

CCAI's In Focus Reports

• In Focus: The Adoption Tax Credit (PDF)

Adoptions in the U.S.

• Domestic Infant Adoptions

International Adoption

• DOS: Chart of Total Adoptions per Country to the USA FY 2005-FY 2009
• DOS: International Adoptions by Country
  Includes links to Country Pages with information on how to adopt from that country and country-specific statistics.
• USCIS: News and Country Information

U.S. Foster Care

• State Adoption Fact Sheets
  Links to PDFs with characteristics of children waiting to be adopted.

AFCARS Data

• Current AFCARS Data
• State-by-State Time Between TPR & Adoption Finalization
• State-by-State Prior Relationship of Adoptive Parents
• State-by-State Receiving State or Federal Adoption Subsidy
• State-by-State Foster Care FY 2002-FY 2008 Entries and Exits
• Trends in Entries, Exits, TPR, Waiting, Adopted and Served FY 2002-FY 2008
• Child Finalization Ages
• Additional AFCARS Reports and Data
  Most reports were published in 2009 using 2008 data.  All links are directly to charts and graphs.

Orphans and Vulnerable Children

• USAID: Global Profile of Highly Vulnerable Children