By The Numbers: Registry Statistics search statistics

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Interested in statistics? Tracking numbers regarding those searching to connect with birth family members is something (a great deal) less than an exact science. We use state-specific resources, reunion registries, professional or paid searchers, Internet search tools, friends, family members, and strangers to help. However, tracking the numbers on one reunion registry can give us an idea of who is searching for whom.

Running Totals

These numbers are updated monthly. They are drawn only from the Reunion Registry here at the site and should not be considered representative of the greater adoption community.

Last Update: October 11, 2001

SEARCHERS	%
Adoptees	69.9%
Female	71.7%
Male	28.3%
Birthparents	16.3%
Searching for female adoptee	50.6%
Searching for male adoptee	49.3%
Searching for unknown gender	0.1%
Siblings	10.1%
Others including birth and adoptive family members	3.7%

More Interesting Numbers

Using a volunteer searcher	13.5%
Birthfathers searching (as a % of total birthparents)	10.2%
Year with most adoptees searching	1968
Oldest searching adoptee	87
Youngest searching adoptee	18
Canadian searches (as % of total)	4.1%
Other country searches (as % of total) including England, Australia, New Zealand, Korea, Philippines, Germany, France, Zambia, Peru, Ireland, Colombia, Italy, Switzerland, Greece, Scotland, East Timor, Panama, Zimbabwe, and Finland	4.1%

More about Our Registry

• 42 submissions for underage adoptees have not been posted in accordance with registry regulations;
• 29 confirmation requests have been returned as non-deliverable and have not been posted;
• 13 submissions have included no email address for confirmation;
• there are 21 submissions still waiting for confirmation from those who sent them in.

If you submitted information to the registry and do not see it posted, please with your confirmation number or submit your search information again. No information will be posted to the registry until the person who sent it confirms that it is correct and did come from him/her.

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