Did
you know?...
- In 2001, 95% of internationally
adopted children came from twenty countries.
- There are 1.5 million adopted
children in the United States, over 2% of all
U.S. children.
- About 60% of Americans have
a personal connection to adoption.
- As of March 2005 the total number
of people displaced is 1.5 million
just in Southeast Asia and East Africa alone.
- More than 1 million people are
displaced from Hurricane Katrina.
- The US Census reports ethnic
groups in the United States for the last
Census as follows:
White: 81.7%
Black: 12.9%
Asian: 4.2%
native Hawaiin/Other Pacific Islander: .2%
Amerindian & Alaska native: 1% |
If you're wondering about the Hispanic representation,
the US Census
categorizes Hispanics inclusive of the percentages
for its categories
for White and Black. However, if you extrapolate
them from the
percentages for the Census categories for White
and Blacks, the
percentage change for White and Black categories
would be 69% White, 12%
Black and 13% Hispanic.
Sources
include: U.S. State Department, U.S. Census Bureau, Evan B. Donaldson
Adoption Institute, UNICEF
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