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Last year 62 Azeri kids were adopted by USA citizens

05 February 2005 [09:40] - TODAY.AZ
Every year Americans adopt 20.000 kids from various countries. In 2003, the same numbers of kids were adopted by USA residents (APA).
This information is placed in an official website of US State Department. According to reports, in 2003 mostly Chinese kids were adopted by USA which is 6859 in number. The second place belongs to Russia (5209 kids), third place to Guatemala (2328 kids). CIS countries are among those kids of which are mostly adopted. In 2003, 825 kids of Kazakhstan were adopted by USA, 702 kids of Ukraine, 191 kids of Belarus. 62 kids of Azerbaijan being 19th in the list are adopted by USA.

In the report it's mentioned that, in 2000 the number of population of USA increased because of adopted kids. According Bureau of Population Listing of USA, currently there are 200 thousand kids adopted from various countries in the USA. 100 thousand of adopted kids are brought from Asia, 58 thousand from Latin America, 36.8 thousand from European countries.

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