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Country Code: FR
Area: 418,085 sq mi (672,843km²)
Gross Domestic Product: 2,232 Billion Dollar
Population: 64,102,140

Country related organizations and persons

Organization	Link	Country	From	To
Mission de l'adoption internationale (MAI)	Central authority of	France

Organizations based in France:

Adoption Advocates

Organization	State/Province	City
Enfance & Familles d'Adoption (EFA)		Paris
Council of Europe Development Bank		Paris
Care France	Paris - Ile-de-France	Paris

Adoption Agency

Organization	State/Province	City
Vivre en Famille	Orne -Basse-Normandie	Champsecret
Ti-Malice	Creuse - Limousin	Gueret
Renaitre	Hautes-Pyrénées - Midi-Pyrénées	Barbazon-Debat
Rayon de Soleil de l'Enfant Etranger	Paris - Ile-de-France	Paris
Passerelle	Isère - Rhône-Alpes	Tullins
Païdia	Nord - Nord-Pas-de-Calais	La Madelaine
Orchidee Adoption	Hauts-de-Seine - Ile-de-France	Rueil-Malmaison
Oeuvre de l'Adoption Comite de Montauban	Tarn-et-Garonne - Midi-Pyrénées	Montauban
Oeuvre de l'Adoption Comite de Marseille	Bouches-du-Rhone - Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur	Marseille
Oeuvre de l'Adoption Comite de Lyon	Rhône - Rhône-Alpes	Lyon
Oeuvre de l'Adoption Comite de Lille	Nord - Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Lille
Oeuvre de l'adoption Comite de Cognac	Charente - Poitou-Charentes	Cognac
Oeuvre de l'Adoption Comite de Brive	Corrèze - Limousin	Brive
Oeuvre de l'Adoption Bordeaux	Gironde - Aquitaine	Bordeaux
Medecins du Monde	Paris - Ile-de-France	Paris
Lumieres des Enfants	Côtes-d'Armor - Bretagne	Lannion
Les Enfants Reine de la Misericorde	Manche - Basse-Normandie	Coutances
Les Enfants de l'Esperance	Seine-et-Marne - Ile-de-France	Champs sur Marne
Les Enfants avant Tout	Ille-et-Vilaine - Bretagne	Chasné sur Illet
Les Amis des Enfants sans Famille Kasih Bunda	Rhône - Rhône-Alpes	Haute Jarrie
Les Amis des Enfants du Monde	Hauts-de-Seine - Ile-de-France	Montrouge
La Famille adoptive francaise	Hauts-de-Seine - Ile-de-France	Boulogne-Billancourt
La Cause	Yvelines - Ile-de-France	Carrieres-Sous Poissy
L'Agence Française d'Adoption (AFA)	Paris - Ile-de-France	Paris
Enfants Espoir du Monde	Bas-Rhin - Alsace	Barr
Enfants du Monde (France)	Nord - Nord-Pas-de-Calais	Lille
Enfance Avenir	Yvelines - Ile-de-France	Chatou
Edelweiss-Acceuil	Savoie - Rhône-Alpes	Nances
Diaphanie	Paris - Ile-de-France	Paris
Comexseo	Maine-et-Loire - Pays de la Loire	Allonnes
Children of the sun	Sarthe - Pays de la Loire	Le mans
Chemin vers l'enfant	Indre-et-Loire - Centre	Chinon
Ayuda	Loire-Atlantique - Pays de la Loire	Ancenis
Arc en Ciel	Maine-et-Loire - Pays de la Loire	Villemoisan
Amadea	Charente - Poitou-Charentes	Aunac
Accueil et Partage	Oise - Picardie	Bailly
Accueil aux Enfants du Monde	Gard - Languedoc-Roussillon	Codognan

Foundation

Organization	State/Province	City
Solidarite Enfants Roumains Abandonnes France (SERA France)		Paris
Sauver le Darfour		Paris
la Fondation d’ Entreprise Zannier Holybaby		Paris
Fondation Suez		Paris
CODEGAZ		Paris

Governmental Organization

Organization	State/Province	City
Mission de l'adoption internationale (MAI)	Paris - Ile-de-France	Paris
France Biotech		Paris
Council of Europe		Paris

Miscellaneous

Organization	State/Province	City
Collectif des familles pour les orphelins du Darfour	Paris - Ile-de-France	Paris
Arche de Zoe		Paris

Cases:

Abuse cases

Organization	Province	City
Kahina adopted by French parents	Yvelines - Ile-de-France	Sartrouville
Children adopted by Jean-Pierre O. and Anne-Marie O.		Savoie
Children adopted by couple in Haute-Loire, France	Haute-Loire - Auvergne	Yssingeaux

Child trafficking cases

Report	Date
Vietnam - Vu Tien Manh case	1998-01-01
Vietnam - Nam Dinh province case	2008-07-01
Vietnam - My Linh Soland aka My-Linh Duong Soland case	2006-07-11
Vietnam - An Giang Province - Le Quoc Binh case	1995-01-01
Vietnam - misc trafficking articles case	1998-01-01
Peru - Céline Giraud - "Rayon de soleil" case.	2010-08-14
Nepal - misc trafficking articles case	2007-03-07
Mali - "Rayon de Soleil" case	2007-11-01
Madagascar - misc. child trafficking cases	2004-04-04
Guatemala - more trafficking articles and stolen children cases	1979-01-01
El Salvador - Children stolen during Civil War case	1979-01-01
Central African Republic - Oscar and Marlène - "Rayon de Soleil" case	2005-08-04
Cambodia - misc trafficking articles case	1990-01-01
Bulgaria - misc. child trafficking cases	2006-07-01
Bulgaria - child trafficking case "Affaire bébés bulgares"	2007-01-22
Brazil - misc trafficking cases	1980-01-01

Adoption statistics:

Adoption imports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Haiti	167	275	322	542	507	475	571	403	731	651	992	34
Ethiopia	228	234	209	217	390	397	408	417	484	445	352	288
Vietnam	3	44	61	234	363	790	742	268	284	308	469	264
Russian Federation	104	146	263	333	445	357	397	402	315	288	301	286
Colombia	270	392	358	278	314	293	321	375	305	241	369	286
China	105	130	210	360	491	458	314	176	144	102	100	97
Madagascar	213	216	281	325	292	245	117	62		26	37	32
Mali	61	64	95	132	79	85	109	135	72	117	71	61
Ukraine	61	130	178	141	126	96	88	99	112	59	59	35
Miscelaneous									645
Brazil	88	82	81	103	92	98	95	66		63	13	23
Thailand	86	70	66	83	87	84	69	71		45	30	30
Cote d'Ivoire	23	33	30	10	25	27	26	54	67	68	75	29
Latvia	28	72	90	50	105	73	79	30		44	47	22
Bulgaria	173	190	228	230	48	15	9	10		9	8	33
Burkina Faso	64	64	55	60	85	62	89	66		25	35	20
Guatemala	245	187	229	247	72	5
Cameroon	15	15	9	21	44	36	29	26		79	56	31
Djibouti	44	50	71	58	31	43	23	22		24	52	31
Democratic Republic of the Congo	24	30	25	38	16	44	20	23		42	41	40
Cambodia	228	31	199	60	6	9	28	26		19	2	7
Tunesia	16	10	16	23	28	24	22	29		31	34	37
Nepal	9	12	29	38	32	38	61	33	58	3	19	2
Poland	25	46	30	21	36	39	26	20		24	26	14
Romania	370	223	42	17	16	3
Kazakhstan	2		2	4	8	11	15	26		30	46	23
South Korea	66	73	57	46	42	38	18	13		10	6	6
India	41	44	23	23	13	20	14	25		18	21	19
Armenia	9	12	9	16	16	19	17	19		15	15	18
Togo	11	14	12	23	18	21	23	31		7	15	8
Lithuania	4	7	32	41	28	20	19	32		9	3	3
Bolivia	15	16	10	33	32	26	13	12		11	6	7
Republic of the Congo		8	6	6	1	5	7	5		29	18	18
Philippines	15	11	16	19	16	12	9	21		3	14	7
Benin	8	20	16	14	5	16	6	7		14	15	4
Central African Republic	9	2	15	4	4	7	8	9		7	12	19
Mauritius	3	4	9	7	16	11	15	8		14	7	8
Nigeria	5	5	9	3	2	1	2	7		9	23	13
Laos	1		1		2		2	1		8	14	27
Mexico	12	18	11	18	16	3	15	13		10	8
Senegal	11	12	7	2	6	7	10	7		7	9	15
Guinea		7	5	5	13	8	9	4		5	8	19
Chile	12	15	7	14	15	12	11	7		10	4	7
Sri Lanka	6	7	6	9	9	14	8	6		8	7	9
Rwanda		5	2	3	7	16	40	4		4	5	3
Niger	7	8	10	9	7	6	4	10		6	7	7
Hungary	9	3	15	13	7	3	7	10		4	5	4
Gabon		1		1	2	5	2	2		9	3	12
Cape Verde	10	5	5	2	1	7	1	5		8	6	1
Lebanon	8	11	11	5	3	2	2	6		3	3	4
Dominica			1	3	5	10	9	7				3
Chad		3	2	3	3	4	8	5		5	1	1
Albania	10	5	4	3	2	3	5	4		3	1	2
Peru	4	3	5	1	2	5	3	1		3	1	5
Taiwan	1		1	1	2	3	2	3		2	8
Mongolia						2	3	5		3	1	2
Slovakia			1	11	4	9		2
Serbia	2	5	5	1	5	1				2	1	1
Portugal					1		3	2		1	2	2
Georgia (country)	1	4	9	11	2
Ghana			1		2		2	1		2	2	1
El Salvador	1	2	1	2	2	1	3	4
Turkey		1	2	1	2	2	2	1			1	1
Japan	1				1		1	2		1	2	1
Burundi			1	1		3	3	3		1
Iran						1	2	1		2		2
Dominican Repubic	2	1	5	1	1						1	2
Malaysia	3	1		3	1		1	2			2
Belarus	3	4	8	4	2
Indonesia	2		1	1		1		2		2	1
Macedonia	4	4	2		1	2		1		1
pakistan	1		3			1	1			1	1
Czech Republic		1	1		5	1				1
Zambia	1	4	5	1						1
Guinea Bissau								1		2		1
Bosnia Herzegovina			2				1					2
United Kingdom						1	1	1		2
Gambia											3
Moldova	1	1			2		2	1
Singapore		1	1								1	1
Israel	4		1					1			1
Honduras				2						1		1
Azerbaijan	1		1							1		1
Bhutan					2			1			1
Greece												2
Kenya					5	1
Vanuatu		1									2
Kosovo											2
Sao Tome et Principe											2
Namibia							1	1		1
Guyana										1	1
Syria										1	1
Angola								3
Uzbekistan			1					1		1
Turkmenistan										2
Seychelles						1		2
Estonia		1	1								1
Ecuador	2	1	3
Kyrgyzstan					1		2
United States of America					1					1
Surinam												1
Bangladesh											1
Mozambique					1			1
Saint Lucia				3
Equatorial Guinea										1
Nicaragua										1
Hong Kong		2			1
Costa Rica			3
Croatia				1	1
Panama				1	1
South Africa								1
Tanzania							1
Sierra Leone	2
Argentina					1
Morocco				1
Somalia	1
Zimbabwe	1
Total	2962	3099	3544	3997	4078	4138	3976	3163	3217	3017	3509	1995

Source: Ministère des Affaires étrangères - Mission de l'Adoption Internationale

Note for 2008:

Numbers are only shown for countries having exported 50 or more children.

Adoption exports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2007	2008	2009
Switzerland	10	4	9	6	10
United States of America		2				1	1		1
Belgium		2	1	3		1
Sweden	2		2					1
Finland								1
Total	12	8	12	9	10	2	1	2	1

This information is compiled from the figures as reported by the receiving countries.

Reports:

Reports

Document	Date
Renault's children	2006-11-11
Blood Money: international adoptions	2006-11-11
Exports of Romanian children continues (Economy)	2006-11-07
Interpol search for Romanian children adopted abroad	2006-09-29
Madagascar tries to clean up corrupt adoption	2005-12-21
Romanian orphans provokes storm in Parliament	2000-04-07
Adoption of Romanian children	1989-12-28

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