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Country Code: SE
Area: 279,595 sq mi (449,964km²)
Gross Domestic Product: 372 Billion Dollar
Population: 9,127,058

Country related organizations and persons

Organization	Link	Country	From	To
Swedish Intercountry Adoptions Authority (MIA)	Central authority of	Sweden

Organizations based in Sweden:

Adoption Agency

Organization	State/Province	City
Adoptionscentrum	Stockholm	Stockholm
African Hope Adoption (AFA)		Upsalla
Barn i Världen		SOLNA
Barnen framför allt (Children above All - Adoptions)		Kungsbacka
Barnens Vanner (Friends of the Children)		Öjebyn

Governmental Organization

Organization	State/Province	City
Swedish Intercountry Adoptions Authority (MIA)	Stockholm	Stockholm
Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)		Stockholm

Cases:

Abuse cases

Organization	Province	City
Freddi Bergquist, (Erik Ilesov) Adopted Czech boy in Sweden		Jönköping

Child trafficking cases

Report	Date
Brazil - misc trafficking cases	1980-01-01
Greece - child trafficking case	1989-01-01
Nepal - misc trafficking articles case	2007-03-07

Adoption statistics:

Adoption imports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
China	165	220	316	373	497	462	314	280	206	248	184	107
South Korea	130	117	109	111	121	104	91	66	79	97	74	60
Colombia	110	138	122	90	71	54	47	39	41	54	71	77
India	71	75	60	37	46	44	38	56	51	37	33	23
Vietnam	132	78	86	32	6	80	67	54	50	65	2
South Africa	6	51	43	54	40	46	38	44	40	41	29	30
Ethiopia	15	17	18	21	26	37	32	39	42	37	29	24
Russian Federation	72	54	71	66	53	34	46	4	8	21	20	26
Taiwan	2	4	5	2	3	4	5	6	27	43	54	45
Thailand	21	33	29	35	27	35	30	35	26	23	17	11
Poland	36	34	26	25	21	27	18	25	17	15	18	12
Somalia	5	14	4	14	13	19	21	25	59	40
Bulgaria	30	23	21	17	7	3		2	1	9	11	19
Kenya	2		4	2		4	3	4		12	14	24
Belarus	27	52	44	51	34			1		1
Lithuania	1		4	2	8	6	6	10	6	12	15	11
Estonia	21	7	15	6	1	8	6	5	10	9	10	9
Slovakia			1		4	1	2	7	7	14	11	8
Nigeria			1	1		1			10	12	10	13
Philippines	4	6	10	7	5	7	10	8	10	8		5
Bolivia	3	1	2	8	13	9	11	9	6	6	6	2
Iraq	11	8	8	6	10	8	1	18	9	9
Serbia	6	3	6	14	13	4	7	5	6	3	5	5
Ukraine	20	14	19	21	13	9	4	2	1	7
Czech Republic	1		1		8	5	2	2	3	6	9	9
Ecuador	2	5	10	4	1					5	10	5
United States of America	5	2	2	5	3	4	10	2	7	5
Burundi			3		4	2	8	4	7	2
Lesotho										2	6	6
Kyrgyzstan		1				1	5	10	6	1
Sri Lanka	1	2	1		2	2	2	1	2	1	2	5
Iran	2		3	4	3	7	5	2	3	1
Democratic Republic of the Congo		3	1	1	1	1	1	2	3	7
Eritrea		3	2		3	2	1	1	2	7
Afghanistan	4	4	1		4	5	1	1	5	1
Nepal	1				1			1			8
Brazil	11	4	4		3	1	2		2	1
Latvia	8	6	3	2	1		1	1	3	1
Turkey	1	5		1	2	2	2	3		3
Romania	16	12	2	1			1	1
Bangladesh	2	1		1	1	2	2	1	1	3
Sierra Leone	1	4	4	6		1	1			2
United Kingdom	1		4		2	1	1		4	1
Tanzania		6	3	2	1	2	2		1	1
Germany		3	3		2	1	2	2		2
Uganda			4	3		1	2	1	2	1
Bosnia Herzigovina	4	1		3	2	2		2	2
Indonesia	3	2	1		1	2	1	1	1	2
Ghana	1	3			1				2	4
Madagascar										3	1	2
Morocco		2	1	1	1	3		1	2	1
Albania	1				4	3	2	1
Pakistan	4	2	2	1	3		1			1
Gambia		3					2	3	1
Chile		4	2			2			1	1
Montenegro									3	2
Peru	2	4	1	1	1	1	2
Hungary	1				1	1	2			2
Liberia	1		2	2	1	1		1		1
Kazakhstan		1	1		2			2		1
Croatia			1		3	2	2
Lebanon	2					3	3
Zambia					1	1	2	1	1
Guinea		1		2			1	1		1
Tunesia		2	2							2
Cameroon							1		3
Mongolia									1	2
Sudan		1	1		1	2		1
Macedonia			1					1	2
Malaysia			1		1				1	1
Rwanda						2	1		1
Japan	1	1	1		2	1
Switzerland	1									2
Israel	2			1		1			1
Syria				2	1					1
Mexico	3			1						1
Niger										2
France	2		2						1
Spain		1	2							1
Cambodia								1		1
Italy								1	1
Australia		1					2
Algeria	1		2				1
Cote d'Ivoire			1			1	1
Egypt			1			1	1
Saudi Arabia								2
Yemen					1					1
Azerbaijan				1		2
Namibia						1			1
Malawi						1			1
Netherlands						1			1
Guatemala	3						1
Central African Republic							2
Jamaica					1		1
Jordan					1		1
Greece		1	1		1
Mali										1
Mauritius										1
Republic of the Congo										1
Chad				1			1
Samoa	1							1
Angola	1		2
Armenia									1
Panama									1
unknown									1
Mozambique				1	1
El Salvador								1
Nicaragua		1			1
New Zealand			1	1
Honduras	1				1
Myamar						1
Uzbekistan						1
Gaza Strip						1
Moldova					1
Swaziland					1
Ecuatorial Guinea				1
Laos				1
Tadjikistan				1
Austria			1
Canada			1
Cape Verde			1
Bhutan		1
Georgia (country)		1
Zimbabwe		1
Total	981	1044	1107	1046	1109	1083	879	800	793	912	649	538

Source: Myndigheten för internationella adoptionsfrågor, MIA

Adoption exports

Country from	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Finland	3	2	1	1	1	2	3	3	2	1	2
Switzerland	2
Total	5	2	1	1	1	2	3	3	2	1	2

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

Reports:

Reports

Document	Date
All I ever did was arrange adoptions for mothers who would otherwise	1995-04-04

Parent topics: Around the world

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