How many orphans live in orphanages in each country -estimated
I would like a list with.
Example: 
United States: 5000 orphans
Canada: 4000 orphans etc.
Thank you!

Hello, theorphanage-ga!

This is an extremely daunting task. I have researching this topic for
nearly 10 hours, and have not come up with as complete an answer as I
would like to. Nevertheless, I am going to post what I have as a
partial answer, and continue to complete the rest under a
clarification, if you desire. If you feel this is enough information
for the price you posted, please let me know. Otherwise, I will
continue to pursue this some more.

The basic problem is that there are many more statistics for homeless
children by country, than for homeless children living in orphanages.
It is important to note that many third world countries do not even
have orphanages. Most orphaned children simply live “on the street” or
are fostered by extended family, older siblings or members of the
community.  I ran across a tremendous amount of information about the
number of orphans in various countries, but very few mentioned numbers
for, or the existence of orphanages.

For example, refer to the article "Uganda: Aids and War Orphans" at
http://www.irinnews.org/AIDSreport.asp?ReportID=1228

  “Uganda has an estimated 1.7 million orphans, the highest number in
the world…….”
  “Children as young as 10 to 13 years old are sometimes burdened with
the care of younger siblings and thousands of orphanages would be
needed to house them, even if that were the preferred option - though
putting children in institutions is often not regarded as the best
option for the child.”


I have tried to provide information on the number of orphans in
orphanages per country for every country which I have found
information for so far. If no hard statistics are available, I have
tried to include some usable information.


Afghanistan
 (Kabul only)
***********
Total – 1200
 “At Kabul's two main orphanages, Alauddin and Tahia Maskan, the
number of children enrolled has increased almost 80 percent since last
January, from 700 to over 1,200 children. Almost half of these come
from families who have at least one parent, but who can't support
their children.”
Read “Poverty Forces Kabul Parents to Send Kid’s to Orphanages,” by
Scott Baldauf. Christian Science Monitor (6/3/2002) at
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0603/p08s01-wosc.html

Azerbaijan
***********
No official number
 “Many children are abandoned due to extreme poverty and harsh living
conditions. Family members or neighbors may raise some of these
children but the majority live in crowded orphanages until the age of
fifteen when they are sent into the community to make a living for
themselves.”
Read “Azerbaijan Adoptions.” at
http://www.anewarrival.com/Azerbaijan.html

Bulgaria
*********
2% of  children
  “With two percent of all Bulgarian children in orphanages the
country has one of the highest orphan rates in Europe.”
Read “Bulgarian Orphan Crisis.” Mission Without Borders. (3/31/2002)
at
http://www.mwb-sa.org/saweb.nsf/d825e7f4149283d4882566ce0061afd4/b72345da638dd7f942256a92002d03e5!OpenDocument
 
Cambodia
***********
Total number unknown:
  “There are no accurate figures available on how many orphans there
are in Cambodia..”
Read “Adoptions Like “Selling Goods,” by Bill Bainbridge and Lon Nara.
Adoption News. (12/1/2001) at
http://www.adoptionnews.org/news_by_country_detail.asp?NewsID=158

China
********
Estimated total in 2002 – 50,000
 “Currently there are 50,000 children in Chinese orphanages, while the
number of abandoned children shows no sign of slowing.”
Read “China: Children.”  China World News (12/31/2002) at
http://www.websitesaboutchina.com/soci/society_2.htm

Estimated total in 1996 – fewer than 20,000 
 “Official figures show that fewer than 20,000 of China's orphans are
now in any form of institutional care.”
Read “Human Rights Watch Condemns Fatal Neglect in China’s
Orphanages.” Human Rights Watch Press Release. (1/7/1996) at
http://www.oneworld.org/news/partner_news/wk3_hrw.html
  “Chinese official records fail to account for most of the country’s
abandoned infants and children, only a small proportion of whom are in
any form of acknowledged state care. The most recent figure provided
by the government for the country’s orphan population, 100,000 seems
implausibly low for a country with a total population of 1.2 billion.
Even if it were accurate, however, the whereabouts of the great
majority of China’s orphans would still be a complete mystery, leaving
crucial questions about the country’s child welfare system unanswered
and suggesting that the real scope of the catastrophe that has
befallen China’s unwanted children may be far larger than the evidence
in this report documents.”
Read “Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China’s State
Orphanages.” Human Rights Watch. (January 1996) at
http://www.hrw.org/summaries/s.china961.html

Egypt
*******
Partial information:
 120 -   Mosques of Charity
   “The orphanage houses about 120 children in Giza, Menoufiya and
Qalyubiya..”
 192 -   The Awladi
 200+ - Dar Al-Iwaa
   “"We provide free education and accommodation for over 200 girls
and boys.”
  44 -    Dar Al-Mu'assassa Al-Iwaa'iya
     “    “Dar Al-Mu'assassa Al-Iwaa'iya (Shelter Association), a
government association affiliated with the Ministry of Social Affairs,
was established in 1992. It houses about 44 children.”
  30 -    Sayeda Zeinab orphanage
 300  -   My Children Orphanage

**Note: There are about 185 orphanages in Egypt.
The above information was taken from the following articles:

“Other families,” by Amany Abdel-Moneim. Al-Ahram Weekly (5/1999)  at 
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/1999/428/li1.htm#top
“Ramadan brings charity to Egypt's orphans.” Shanghai Star 12/13/2001
at http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2001/1213/fe19-2.html
“A Child by Any Other Name,” by Réhab El-Bakry. Egypt Today (11/2002)
at http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:nOdZZElgVt8C:www.egypttoday.com/issues/0211/3FFD/02113FFD.asp+My+children+orphanage+egypt&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Estonia
*********
Total –  1,099 (1998)
 “In 1998, there were a total of 1,101 places and 1,099 wards in the
orphanages across Estonia. The number of wards in orphanages has
remained stabile over the years (e.g. in 1993, there were 1,098
children in orphanages). This can be partly explained by the lack of
orphanages for street children who have different lifestyles and
habits that are threatening to health and life.”
Read “Children in Estonia: The Child in Alternative Care,” by Sirje
Grossmann-Loot. United Nations in Estonia (2000) at
http://www.undp.ee/child/en/3.1.html

Ethiopia
***********
Total  - 160 (2000)
 “For example, in the Jerusalem Association Children's Home (JACH),
only 160 children remain of the 785 who were in JACH's three
orphanages.”
  “Attitudes regarding the institutional care of children have shifted
dramatically in recent years in Ethiopia. There appears to be general
recognition by MOLSA and the NGOs with which Pact is working that such
care is, at best, a last resort, and that serious problems arise with
the social reintegration of children who grow up in institutions, and
deinstitutionalization through family reunification and independent
living are being emphasized.”
Read “Assessment of the Street Children and Orphans Component of the
Pact NGO Sector Enhancement Initiative in Ethiopia.” Displaced
Children and Orphan’s Fund and Patrick J. Leahy War Victim’s Fund.”
USAID (March 2000) at
http://www.usaid.gov/pop_health/dcofwvf/reports/evals/dcethiopia00.html

Guatemala
***********
Approximately 20,000  (2000)
“…currently there are about 20,000 children in orphanages..”
Read “The Children of Guatemala.” BBC World Service at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/001027_adoption.shtml
 
Hungary
*********
Approximately 22,000  (1998)
 “More than 22,000 orphaned and abandoned children are in state
custody in Hungary.”
Read “Abandoned Children and Infants,” by by Justin D. Long. Monday
Morning Reality Check at http://www.gem-werc.org/mmrc/mmrc9818.htm

India
State of Andhra Pradish
***************************
Children’s Homes – 5,050
6 – 18 years of age
Refer to “Children’s Homes.” Government of Andrha Pradish at
http://www.apanganwadi.com/DeptInstitutions/ChildrenHomes.htm
 
Iraq
********
Total in 1990 –1,190 
Unicef maintains the same number at present.
 “While the number of state homes for orphans in the whole of Iraq was
25 in 1990 (serving 1,190 children); both the number of homes and the
number of beneficiaries has declined. The quality of services has also
declined.”
 “A 1999 study by Unicef  “recommended the rebuilding of national
capacity for the rehabilitation of orphans.” The new project “will
benefit all the 1,190 children placed in orphanages.”
Read “Assistance to Orphans.” Child Protection. Unicef at
http://www.unicef.org/iraq/fund/chi-orphans.htm

Kenya
*********
A 1999 survey of 35,000 orphans found the following number in
institutional care:
 64 – registered institutions
164 – unregistered institutions
Read “Orphans and Vulnerable Children,” by Marito Garcia. African
Region. The World Bank (12/3/2001) at
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/socialsafetynets/courses/dc2001/pdfppt/garcia.pdf

Kyrgyzstan
**********
Partial information:
 85 – Ivanovka Orphanage
Read “Tokmak and Area Children’s Work” at
http://www.missionpartners.org/orphanages/ivanovka.html

Laos
*********
Estimated total – 1000 (1990’s)
 “It is stated that there are 20,000 orphaned children in Laos. There
are only three orphanages in the whole country providing places for a
total of 1,000 of these children.” No Title. by Anneli Dahlbom.
http://www.rb.se/Worldcongress/Traffick.htm

Mexico
**********
Approximately 10,000+  (1999)
  “…at least 10,000 Mexican children live in orphanages and more in
unregistered charity homes”
Read “Central/South America.” Migration News. (August 1999) at
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/archive_mn/aug_1999-08mn.html

Poland
*********
Approximately 80,000  
  “In Poland today there are 350 orphanages-the highest number in
Central Europe- including about 100 smaller orphanages run by
families. They are home to about 80,000 children.”
Read “Our Guy Friday,” by Beata B³aszczyk. The Warsaw Voice.
(9/1/2002) at http://www.warsawvoice.pl/v723/Communities00.html

Romania
***********
Conflicting numbers from different sources:
 125,000+ (2002)
 “The number of children in Romanian orphanages has continued to
increase since the end of Ceaucescu's tyranny. At the time of
Ceaucescu's death in 1989 there were 85,000 children in orphanages. In
1993 that number had risen to 98,000. Today in 2002 that number is
over 125,000.”
 Read “New Opportunities for Romanian Orphaned Children.”
http://www.noroc.org/romania.html
                                                                      
  or:
 60,000 (2002)
  “Although the situation is improving, more than 60,000 children
still live in state orphanages, while some 30,000 have been placed
with foster parents.”
Read “Romanian Adoption Issue May Cloud Nato Plans,” by Eugen Tomiuc.
Adoption News (4/15/2002) at
http://www.adoptionnews.org/news_by_country_detail.asp?NewsID=18
 
Russia
*********
Conflicting numbers from different sources:
Approximately total -  200,000 (1998)
 “Of a total of more than 600,000 children classified as being
“without parental care,” as many as one-third reside in institutions.”
Read “Cruelty and Neglect in Russian Orphanages.” Human Rights Watch.
(December 1998)
http://www.hrw.org/reports98/russia2/ 
                                                                   or:
Approximate total – 700,000 (no date)
 “There are some 700,000 children and teenagers living in state
institutions, according to Russia's Health Ministry. Some 15,000 young
people graduate from the state-run orphanages every year. And at least
40 percent of these graduates eventually end up in prisons, while one
tenth of them commit suicide.”
Read “Kremlin Voices Concern Over Homeless Kids.”by Sergei Blagovhttp
at http://www.globalmarch.org/virtuallibrary/dailyjl-brussels/russia-kremlin.htm

Rwanda
*********
Total – 5000
 Out of 400,000 orphans, 5,000 are living in orphanages.
Read “Social Protection of Africa’s Orphans and Other Vulnerable
Children.” African Region Human Development Working Series Paper at
http://www.worldbank.org/afr/hd/wps/African_Orphans.pdf

South Korea
**********
Approximate total –  17,000 (1999)
  “There are now 17,000 children in public orphanages throughout the
country and untold numbers at private institutions.”
Read “South Korea Tries to Take Care of its Own with Domestic
Adoptions.” LA Times (3/6/1999) at http://www.mpak.com/LATimes.html

Tajikistan
**********
Approximate total – 9,000 (1997)
  “No one can be sure how many lone children are there in the
republic. About 9,000 are in internats and in orphanages.”
Read “Children and the Society,” by Natalia Bruker, Irada Guseinova.
Asia Plus (1997) at http://www.internews.ru/ASIA-PLUS/bulletin_23/children.html

Tanzania
***********
Approximate total – 3000
 “Currently, there are 52 orphanages in Tanzania caring for about
3,000 orphans and vulnerable children.”
Read “A Program on Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Aids affected
areas in Tanzania.” Axios International at
http://www.synergyaids.com/documents/3322_AxiosOVC_Tanzania.pdf

Uganda
***********
Total – 1,300
 Out of 1,700,000 orphaned children, only 1,300 children live in
orphanages.
Read “Social Protection of Africa’s Orphans and Other Vulnerable
Children.” African Region Human Development Working Series Paper at
http://www.worldbank.org/afr/hd/wps/African_Orphans.pdf

Ukraine
***********
Partial information:
 150 – Kiev State Baby Orphanage
Read “Kiev’s Children’s Work” at
http://www.missionpartners.org/orphanages/orphankiev.html
  30 – Beregena Orphanage
 120 – Dom Invalid Orphanage
Read “Dnepropetrovsk Orphanages and Children’s Work” at
http://www.missionpartners.org/orphanages/moreukr.html

Uzbekistan
************
Partial Information:
  80 – Takhtakupar Orphanage
Read “Takhatkupar Orphanage” at
http://www.missionpartners.org/orphanages/takhtakupar.html
 
Zambia
********
A 1996 national survey of orphans revealed no evidence of orphanage
care. The breakdown of care was as follows:
 For double orphans:
  38% grandparents
  55% extended family
    1% older orphan
    6% non-relative
Read “Orphans and Vulnerable Children,” by Marito Garcia. African
Region. The World Bank (12/3/2001) at
http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/socialsafetynets/courses/dc2001/pdfppt/garcia.pdf

Zimbabwe
**********
Total number unknown:
 “Statistics on the total number of children in orphanages nation-wide
are unavailable, but care givers say their facilities were becoming
unmanageably overwhelmed almost on a daily basis.”
 “There are 38 privately run children's charity homes, or orphanages
in the country, and the government operates eight of its own.”
“ Zimbabwe's orphanages are over- spilling, and care givers say they
are failing to cope with the rising numbers of children coming to
their charity homes.”
Read “Charity Homes Worry About Rising Number of Orphans,” by
Rangarirai Shoko. Pan African News Agency. (2/26/2001) at
http://allafrica.com/stories/200102260090.html

  “Between 1994 and 1998, the number of orphans in Zimbabwe more than
doubled from 200,000 to 543,000, and in five years the number is
expected to reach 900,000.” (Unfortunately, there is no room for these
children.)
Read “Zimbabwe: Aids Death Toll Yielding More Orphans.” Kaiser Daily.
(9/11/2000) at http://report.kff.org/archive/aids/2000/09/kh000911.4.htm

Additional Information
**********************
In some countries, orphanages are distinguished from Institutions and
other shelters for homeless children. Refer to “Children in Estonia:
The Child in Alternative Care,” by Sirje Grossmann-Loot. United
Nations in Estonia (2000) at http://www.undp.ee/child/en/3.1.html

“Number of African AIDS Orphans, Orphan Centers Growing While Tradi-
tional Family Support Breaks Down.” Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report.
(8/9/2001)
http://www.afronets.org/afronets-hma/afro-nets.200108/msg00037.php 
  “The number of African orphans has steadily grown since the early 
1990s as parents have died from AIDS-related complications or aban-
doned their children due to their illness, giving rise to orphanages 
often funded by American charities, the Christian Science Monitor/ 
Washington Times reports. Prior to the onset of the AIDS epidemic, 2%
of children in the developing world were orphans. Now, largely be-
cause of the effects of the disease, 10% of children in sub-Saharan 
Africa are parentless, according to U.N. estimates. Traditionally, 
extended family took in children when their parents died, but the 
"huge" number of orphans and the stigma associated with AIDS have 
broken down traditional family practices, causing many people to turn
orphaned relatives away. "Fewer and fewer relations are willing to 
take in orphans," Roselyn Mutemi Wangahu, who led a UNICEF study on 
AIDS orphans in Kenya, said. Those who do take in relatives often 
treat them as "second-class members of the family," sometimes abusing
the children or "forc[ing]" them to work. However, most people Wan-
gahu surveyed said they "preferred institutionalizing" the children. 
"They've realized they are not able to cope anymore," she explained. 
According to Clive Beckenham, director of the New Life Home in Nai-
robi, Kenya, more than 90% of the infants brought to his center 
"eventually test negative" for HIV.”
A Rise in Children's Homes:
  “The large number of orphans, coupled with the lack of familial sup-
port, has given rise to many new orphanages throughout sub-Saharan 
Africa, mostly funded by American charities, the Monitor/Times re-
ports. Feed the Children, an Oklahoma-based group, recently opened 
the $300,000 Frances Jones Abandoned Baby Center in Nairobi. Almost 
all of the money for the center came from the United States. Interna-
tional Children's Care, a development and relief agency based in 
Washington state, is opening five orphanages near Ndolo, a copper-
mining town in Zambia, while Gospa Missions, a Pennsylvania-based 
missionary group, is raising money to build a facility in Ogoja, Ni-
geria. Despite the wave of new centers, the need remains for more. 
"If we promoted this facility today, we would have it full tomorrow,"
Ian Harris, international director for Feed the Children, said, add-
ing that without advertising, they have had inquiries from Mozam-
bique, Zimbabwe and South Africa about setting up similar centers 
there. "It's something I don't think governments have come to terms 
with," he said. Most of the orphanages are not meant to be "long-
term" homes for the children, as many of the centers have staff de-
voted to finding foster homes or adoptive arrangements for the chil-
dren. Several homes, such as the Frances Jones Center, are also in-
cluding community outreach programs on HIV prevention as part of 
their services (Crawley, Christian Science Monitor/Washington Times, 
8/9).”

  If statistics for orphaned and homeless children is of interest to
you where information about children in orphanages is lacking, you may
want to consider it as another variable in another question. I would
be happy to provide that information for you if you would like to
address a question to me.

  As I have said, I will continue to follow up on other countries,
unless you feel this is enough information. Please let me know.

 Have a Happy, Happy New Year!

 umiat-ga
 
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Request for Answer Clarification by theorphanage-ga on 01 Jan 2003 10:08 PST

Please continue finding the rest of statistics...Thank you a lot for
you great done ! and please let me know if can I publish the
statistics on my web site....

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Request for Answer Clarification by theorphanage-ga on 01 Jan 2003 10:09 PST

I forgot to tell you that: let me know if can I publish the statistics
on my web site....

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Clarification of Answer by umiat-ga on 02 Jan 2003 15:16 PST

theorphanage-ga,

 Here is the additional information I have found. Please be aware that
this is not inclusive of all countries, because complete data does not
exist. Also, many of the statistics are not up to date. As I mentioned
in my initial answer, there are many, many references to numbers of
orphans for particular countries, but either no mention of orphanages,
or, if so, no mention of numbers of orphans within orphanages. Here
and there, I might find one orphanage listed in a country with
specific numbers, but that in no way constitutes a total.

 *You are certainly able to use these statistics on your website.
 
 *However, please be sure to cite the original sources only*,

and make sure to be clear that the information is dated, or only
partial, in those instances that apply. Otherwise, people may jump to
the wrong conclusions (i.e. using partial numbers for totals, or
1990’s numbers for recent figures)*

Bangladesh
**************
Partial information:
 “There are no statistics regarding the actual number of children in
welfare institutions in Bangladesh. The Department of Social Services,
under the Ministry of Social Welfare, has a major programme named
Child Welfare and Child Development in order to provide access to
food, shelter, basic education, health services and other basic
opportunities for hapless children.”
 (The following numbers mention “capacity” only….not actual numbers of
orphans at present)
   9,500   – State institutions 
    250    – babies in 3 available “Baby Homes”
    400    -  Destitute Children's Rehabilitation Centre
    100    -  Vocational Training Centre for Orphans and Destitute
Children
   1,400   -  Sixty-five Welfare and Rehabilitation Programmes for
Children with Disability
http://www.odhikar.org/pub/Pub2_5.htm 
 
 “The private welfare institutions are mostly known as orphanages and
madrassahs. The authorities of most of these orphanages put more
emphasise on religion and religious studies.” One example follows:
   400 – Approximately - Nawab Sir Salimullah Muslim Orphanage
http://www.odhikar.org/pub/Pub2_7.htm 

Read “Women and Children in Disadvantaged Situations.” Odhikar.
(4/2001) at
http://www.odhikar.org/pub/Pub2_2.htm 

Belarus
**********
Approximate total – 1,773  (1993 statistics for “all types of
orphanages)
http://216.239.53.100/search?q=cache:ctKdxv1M5hoC:www.un.minsk.by/hdr/hdr96/Chapter6/t6_3.html+statistics+orphanages+number&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Read “United Nations Human Development Report – Belarus 1996) at
http://www.un.minsk.by/hdr/hdr96/toc.html


Haiti
*********
Partial and conflicting information:
 200,000+ (estimated)  children waiting for institutional orphan care
  “Children in Institutions: Haitians and expatriate childcare
professionals are careful to make it clear that Haitian orphanages and
children’s homes are not orphanages in the North American sense, but
instead shelters for vulnerable children, often housing children whose
parent(s) are poor as well as those who are abandoned, neglected or
abused by family guardians. Neither the number of children or the
number of institutions is officially known, but Chambre de L’Enfance
Necessiteusse Ha_tienne (CENH) indicated that is has received requests
for assistance from nearly 200 orphanages from around the country for
more than 200,000 children. Although not all are orphans, many are
vulnerable or originate in vulnerable families that hoped to increase
their children’s opportunities by sending them to orphanages.”
 “The CENH figures seem high when compared to Schwarz’s 1999 count of
five rural and three urban orphanages in the Northwest Province and
northern Artibonite, with a total of 376 children. Catholic Relief
Services provides assistance to 120 orphanages with 9,000 children in
the West, South, Southeast and Grand Anse, but these include only
orphanages that meet their criteria. They estimate receiving ten
requests per week for assistance from additional orphanages and
children’s homes, but some of these are repeat requests.”
Read “The Situations of Orphans in Haiti: A summary assessment.”
USAID, FHI and the IMPACT Project.
http://www.synergyaids.com/documents/3549_fhi10.pdf  (page 14 and 15
of actual report (not web page counter)

Indonesia
************
No information for the number of children actually in orphanages.
The Report, “Convention on the Rights of the Child – First Periodic
Report Indonesia. 1993-June 2000 at
http://193.194.138.190/html/menu2/6/crc/doc/report/srf-indonesia-1.pdf
does list the number of orphaned children at 91,000+, but this number
includes all abandoned children, such as street children, etc.

Latvia
**********
 While information is available for orphaned children, there are no
specific numbers for those orphans placed in orphanages. “The analysis
of the reason why a child is in an institution shows that the
proportion of the number of orphans in the children’s social care
institutions was only 5.6% although the dynamic pointed to an
increasing number of orphans.” See Figure 4.2.
Read “Poverty and Welfare Trends in Latvia over the 1990’s.”
Background Paper Prepared for the Social Monitor (2002) at
http://www.unicef-icdc.org/research/ESP/CountryReports2001_02/Latvia01.pdf

Lithuania
**********
Total 241 – (1994 statistics for 32 foster homes)
     (300 more children are documented to live in “children’s
villages.)
 “Positive changes in the situation of foster children can be seen. In
1995, the International Children's Rights Convention was ratified and
NGOs became more active in this field. There are about 40
organisations and foundations that shelter children: the Lithuanian
Children's Fund, `Viltis', the `SOS Childrens' homes, and the
assistance foundation `Vaiko tëviðkes namai'.
 “At present, there are 30 affiliates of `SOS Children', and 10
children's villages have been created, in which 300 children live. In
each house in each village, there are 5 -7 children living along with
their guardian, or `mother'. Children aged eight or over are taken
into these villages, and stay until they are 18.”
Read “Chapter 11: Families, Women and Children.” United Nations
Development Program (1996) at
http://www.un.lt/HDR/1996/C11/CHAPT11.HTM

Palestinian Territory (of Israel)
******************
Total – 1,714  (1999)
  “In 1999, the number of children living in orphanages witnessed a
considerable drop as compared to 1998. This number dropped from 1,980
to 1,714 orphans. This is due to the policy of child re-integration in
their household adopted by the Ministry of Social Affairs.”
Read “The Fourth Annual Statistical Report, 2001 – Palestinian
Children, Issues and Statistics Executive Summary.” Palestinian
Central Bureau of Statistics. (2001) at
http://www.pcbs.org/english/child/rep_2001.htm

Republic of Moldova
*******************
Approximate total – 2000 in orphanages
                     279 in orphanages “of the family type.”
Read “International Organization “Save the Children” (Moldova)
Information Cards at http://www.iatp.md/cpdom/en/cards.htm

Slovakia
**********
Total – approximately 2,500 (2002)
 “Slovak orphanages house about 2,500 children aged 3-18 in 56
orphanages in Slovakia. Ten percent of these children are in the
process of being adopted. Forty percent have guardians who are not
their parents, and remaining forty percent were placed in orphanages
for legal institutional care. Due to the small number of children who
are "legally free for adoption," coupled with restrictive Slovak
legislation, no Slovak children have been adopted by foreigners until
very recently.”
 “Slovak orphanages for children up to age 3 are administered by the
Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic; orphanages for children of
ages 3-18 by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Slovak
Republic.”
Read “International Adoption: Slovak Republic.” US Department of State
(April 2002) at http://travel.state.gov/adoption_slovakia.html

Taiwan
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Total –638  (2001)
 “On the other hand, the number of orphanages and orphans drastically
dropped from 15 institutions and 2,216 persons in 1971 to 9
institutions and 638 persons by the end of 2001.
Read “Social Welfare” at
http://www.dbas.taipei.gov.tw/stat/summeng/Sume32.doc

United States
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Partial information:
75,890 – (1993 statistics for Catholic orphanages)
Read “Accomplishments of the Catholic Church in 2,000 Years.” (2002)
at http://biblia.com/christ/accomplishments.htm

Approximately 30,000 – group homes (1995)
Traditional “orphanages” have largely been replaced by group homes
Read “The orphanage: is it time to bring it back?” Current
Events.Weekly Reader 1/23/1995)
(offline source)

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