Some countries send more than 50% of their immigants to the US for adoption

I compared the total number of immigrant visas issued in 2010 to the number of adoption visas and discovered some interesting percentages of immigrants admitted to the US for adoption. Here are the top 20 countries by percentage. The ones especially interesting vis-a-vis international adoption are bold.

I hope to find the data to do more years, especially ones of peak activity from Korea, China, and Guatemala.

I'm sure that some of these are adoptions by relatives rather than brokered by the adoption industry, but I'm sure that these are insignificant in the most popular sending countries.

The data comes from the FY 2010 Annual Report on Intercountry Adoptions from the State Department and the Migration Policy Institute Data Hub.

COUNTRY

TOTAL VISAS ISSUED

ADOPTIONS

%

Lesotho	23	13	56.52%
Marshall Islands	37	19	51.35%
Swaziland	22	8	36.36%
American Samoa	14	3	21.43%
Ethiopia	14,266	2513	17.62%
Russian Federation	6,718	1082	16.11%
Kazakhstan	1,282	181	14.12%
Latvia	435	39	8.97%
Rwanda	489	40	8.18%
Estonia	260	19	7.31%
Guinea-Bissau	30	2	6.67%
Uganda	1,085	62	5.71%
Ukraine	8,477	445	5.25%
China (excluding Hong Kong)	70,863	3401	4.80%
Taiwan	6,732	285	4.23%
Korea	22,262	863	3.88%
Malawi	164	4	2.44%
Democratic Republic of Congo	1,764	42	2.38%
Dominica	366	7	1.91%
Mozambique	53	1	1.89%