Germany

Country Code: DE
Area: 221,843 sq mi (357,021km²)
Gross Domestic Product: 2,585 Billion Dollar
Population: 82,310,000

Country related organizations and persons

Organization	Link	Country	From	To
Bundeszentralstelle fur Auslandsadoptionen	Central authority of	Germany

Organizations based in Germany:

Accreditation office

Organization	State/Province	City
Bundeszentralstelle fur Auslandsadoptionen	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Bonn

Adoption Agency

Organization	State/Province	City
Asesoría de Adopciones (AdA) - Adoptionsberatung e.V.	Bayern	München
Children and Parents e. V.	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Aachen
Diakonisches Werk im Rhein-Neckar-Kreis	Baden-Württemberg	Heidelberg
Eltern für Afrika e.V.	Bayern	Augsburg
Eltern für Kinder (Parents for Children)	Berlin	Berlin
Eltern-Kind-Brücke e.V.	Baden-Württemberg	Heidelberg
Evangelischer Verein für Adoptions- und Pflegekindervermittlung Rheinland e. V. (EVAP)	Schleswig-Holstein	Dusseldorf
Familie International Frankfurt e.V.	Hessen	Frankfurt am Main
Help a Child e.V.		Kaltenenge
International Social Service (ISS) - Germany	Berlin	Berlin-Mitte
Parents-Child-Bridge	Baden-Württemberg	Heidelberg
Pro Infante		Düsseldorf
Protestant Adoption Center	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Dusseldorf
Sozialdienst katholischer Frauen (German Catholic Women's Welfare Service)	Nordrhein-Westfalen	Dortmund
Terre des Homme (Germany)	Niedersachsen	Osnabrück

Foundation

Organization	State/Province	City
Africachild e.V.	Bayern	Augsburg

Cases:

Abuse cases

Organization	Province	City
Girl adopted by Eva Maria Hofer	Hamburg	Hamburg

Child trafficking cases

Report	Date
Brazil - misc trafficking cases	1980-01-01
Brazil - Judge Luiz Beethoven Giffoni Ferreira case	1992-01-01
Cambodia - misc trafficking articles case	1990-01-01
India - misc Child trafficking cases	1995-01-01
Nepal - misc trafficking articles case	2007-03-07
Peru - Arndt Hubert Kupper and his wife Eva Noruzka la Torre case	2006-02-18
Peru - misc child trafficking cases	1980-01-01
Philippines / Singapore - Irene Low Ai Lian case	2008-12-15

Adoption statistics:

Adoption imports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
other countries	462	430	488	476	499	431	436	408	377	256	218	327	232	207
Russian Federation	232	250	290	297	255	257	256	327	247	202	168	165	121	87
Thailand	83	88	77	93	106	110	115	73	85	72	77	67	59	65
Ukraine	91	108	141	119	102	109	98	106	56	57	41	41	40	34
Colombia	39	46	79	57	39	44	44	89	92	74	59	53	25	12
Ethiopia	36	26	18	23	22	21	33	30	50	73	99	64	61	39
Poland	129	110	97	83	100	53	69	53	51	38	34	32	26	34
Turkey	68	82	73	68	59	39	42	45	40	35	28	31	26	23
Romania	102	96	100	66	71	42	35	34	20	25	22	14	19	20
Vietnam	106	136	164	85	39	27	22	26	22	18	20	10	11	6
Bulgaria					27	25	21	17	16	26	38	34	42	33
India	93	45	42	38	23	34	25	32	35	28	9	13	12	9
Serbia	75	52	62	51	31	43	23	25	19	8	12	9	9	4
Philippines	49	46	37	35	35	27	21	22	15	21	13	13	14	18
Brazil	73	49	33	33	23	24	25	11	15	18	11	17	17	6
Bosnia and Herzegovina Federation	39	27	23	27	37	21	17	24	9	9	8	4	5	5
United States of America	15	24	19	20	14	11	12	9	11	4	13	5	10	6
Sri Lanka	23	15	17	7	19	13	8	12	12	5	5	7	2
Italy	19	18	17	14	16	6	4	14	8	6	6	8	4	5
Morocco	21	14	13	18	20	16	12	12	2	5	9	7		5
Cameroon	4	11	8	8	8	11	4	4	7	10	6	10	11	7
Croatia	22	22	19	9	23	21	8	9	4	1	7	5	3	1
Afghanistan	9	7	4	7	10	13	13	7	11	5		6	4	2
Peru	16	7	20	6	4	9	7	9	9	5	3	6	3	7
Armenia	8	5	10	4	9	5	8	1	4	5	7	2	4	1
Pakistan	10	2	5	20	10	3	3	6	2		7	3	3	1
Chile	12	7	5	4	5	1	8	9	5	6			2	3
Mexico	3	4	10	5	4	2	4	5	4	2	6	4	1	1
Guatemala	8	15	12	10	4	4	2	1	4	1			6	1
Greece	10	7	11	11	2	3	4	2	1	1		6	3	2
Portugal	4	3	3	2	6		3	5		2		4	6
Austria	5	5	4	3	6	11	3	1	8		2			3
Spain	2	7	5	4	3	4		2	3	1	2	3	2
Cambodia	5	7	3	6	2	2	1			2		3	3	2
Bolivia	12	9	3	3	1	4	1	1		1		3		1
Israel	2	1	4	2	2	3			2	1	2		1
Tunesia	1	3	1	1		3	1	1	1			4		1
Republic of Korea (South Korea)		1	1	5		1			3	2			1
Paraguay	1	2	1		1				1		2		1
Switzerland	2	2
Total	1891	1789	1919	1720	1637	1453	1388	1432	1251	1025	934	980	789	651

Adoption exports

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

Reports:

Reports

Document	Date
Older Children Find Homes in Germany	2009-04-20
US Embassy Meeting on Intercountry Adoption	2008-04-29
Illegal adoptions: investigation into Hamburg-based organization

Parent topics: Western Europe

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