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the number or registered births, (not actual births) divided by the number of cases registered in PGN.
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If this is the way it's been calculated then there are a few major problems:
- As has already been stated, many births are not registered or are registered years later.
- If it's comparing the registered births in year to the number of cases in PGN in a year then it also doesn't account for the fact that there are also many toddlers and older children who are adopted which would inflate the % if the adoptions are being compared only to the births in the previous year.
- Comparing to the US, from the Evan B Donaldson Adoption Institute website:
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One and a Half Million Adopted Children in the United States
There are 1.5 million adopted children in the United States, over 2% of all U.S. children.
1992 Was the Last Year National Adoption Totals Were Gathered. The total number of adoptions each year has not been comprehensively compiled since 1992. While there are reporting mechanisms for foster care and international adoptions, states are not legally required to record the number of private, domestic adoptions. In 1992, the National Center for State Courts gathered adoption totals from a variety of sources, and estimated that 126,951 children were adopted through international, foster care, private agency, independent and step-parent adoptions. NCSC estimated that stepparent adoptions accounted for 42% of all adoptions and foster care adoptions 15%.
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But note: these figures for the US include international adoptions so the % of US children adopted is lower than 2%