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Racial distribution of adopted children in the United States fiscal year 2016

Number of children adopted with public agency involvement in the United States in fiscal year 2016, by race

The data displays the racial distribution of children adopted with public agency involvement in the U.S. in fiscal year 2016. In fiscal year 2016, 27,776 of the children adopted in the United States were white.

White	27776
Hispanic (of any race)	12371
Black or African American	9988
Two or more races	4991
American Indian/ Alaskan Native	970
Unknown	772
Asian	235
Native Hawaiian/ Other Pacific Islander	80

Racial distribution of adopted children in the United States fiscal year 2016

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