Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Orphan Statistics

It was estimated in a recent UNICEF report that there are between 143 million and 210 million orphans worldwide. The current population of Russia is about 141 million...
Every day 5,760 more children become orphans in this world...
2,102,400 more children become orphans every year in Africa alone...
Every 15 seconds, another child in Africa becomes an AIDS orphan...
There are an estimated 18 million AIDS orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa which is a number higher than the total of every under-eighteen year old in Canada, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Ireland combined...
8 out of 10 children orphaned by AIDS lives in sub-saharan Africa...
Approximately 250,000 children are adopted annually, but…
Each year 14, 505, 000 children grow up as orphans and age out of the system by age sixteen.
Each day 38,493 orphans age out or every 2.2 seconds another orphan ages out with no family to belong to and no place to call home...
In Russia and the Ukraine, studies have shown that 10% – 15% of these children commit sucide before they reach age eighteen...
These studies also show that 60% of the girls become prostitutes and 70% of the boys become hardened criminals...
Another Russian study reported that of the 15,000 orphans aging out of state-run institutions every year, 10% committed suicide, 5,000 were unemployed, 6,000 were homeless and 3,000 were in prison within three years…

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