The population of Russia is 141 million.
Everyday, over 5,000 children become orphans.
U.S. Stats
From 2008-09, there were 102,615 adoptions of foster children in the U.S.
In 2009, there were 423,773 children in the foster system in the United States. Children in the U.S. wait an average of 5 years for a family.
In 2009, there were 12,753 international adoptions from the United States (down 25% in one year).
World Wide Stats:
14,050,000 orphans age out of the system world wide each year.
Every single day, over 38,000 children "age out" of the orphan system with no family to belong to and no place to call home.
If orphans were a country, it would be the 10th largest on the planet.
If all the orphans stood in a single file line, they could wrap around the planet 2X.
That's too many.
