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Adoptions Australia data visualisations

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Last updated: 03 Dec 2021
Topic: Adoptions
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (2021) Adoptions Australia data visualisations, AIHW, Australian Government, accessed 23 May 2022.

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. (2021). Adoptions Australia data visualisations. Retrieved from https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/adoptions/adoptions-data-visualisations

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Adoptions Australia data visualisations. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 03 December 2021, https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/adoptions/adoptions-data-visualisations

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. Adoptions Australia data visualisations [Internet]. Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2021 [cited 2022 May. 23]. Available from: https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/adoptions/adoptions-data-visualisations

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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) 2021, Adoptions Australia data visualisations, viewed 23 May 2022, https://pp.aihw.gov.au/reports/adoptions/adoptions-data-visualisations

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  • Contents
    • About
    • Overview of adoptions
    • Intercountry adoption in Australia
    • Local adoption in Australia
    • Known child adoption in Australia
    • Data visualisations help
  • Notes
  • Related material
  • Data

The Adoptions Australia data visualisations allow you to explore data on adoptions through customisable charts and tables. The displays are updated annually and contain data back to 1998–99. Data in the displays are based on the National Adoptions Dataset Specifications.

  • Cat. no: CWS 67
  • Overview of adoptions
  • Data
Findings from this report:

  • Known child adoptions (where a child is known to the adoptive parent) made up 69% of all finalised adoptions in 2020–21

  • Adoption numbers in Australia declined by 63% over the past 25 years – from 709 in 1996–97 to 264 in 2020–21

  • Adoption by carers was the most common type of known child adoption in 2020–21 (55%), followed by step-parents (42%)

  • In 2020–21, the median length of time to process an intercountry adoption was 3 years and 4 months
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