• Adoptions over time in Australia

    The AIHW has spent over three decades monitoring the changing landscape of adoptions in Australia through its annual data collection and analyses.

    Today’s release, Adoptions in Australia over time, explores trends in adoptions going back to 1968–69 in the context of broader social, societal, and policy changes that occurred in Australia and internationally.

  • New AIHW release aims to strengthen the evidence base around congenital anomalies in Australia

    On behalf of the Data Strategies & Discovery Group at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, we are pleased to announce that for the first time since 2008, information and statistics on babies born with congenital anomalies is now publicly available on our website Congenital anomalies 2016 - Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (aihw.gov.au) .