Total Files – 2055

Girls – 536 (26%)
Boys – 1519 (74%)
Dossier First – 5 (0.2%)
Aging Out (10+ years old) – 694 (34%), 222 girls/472 boys
Aging Out (12+ years old) – 308 (15%), 102 girls/206 boys
Aging Out (13+ years old) – 157 (8%), 41 girls/116 boys

Breaking it down:
There are 694 children age 10 and up as of the end of May 2015 birthdays. Of those 694 older children, 308 of them are 12+ and 157 of them are 13+. This means by this time next year, 157 children are aging out of the system completely.

Housekeeping:
The Shared List does not include children who are part of adoption agency orphanage partnerships, children who appear only on an adoption agency’s individual advocacy list or children whom the orphanage has not created a file with CCCWA. The Shared List is updated daily on the CCCWA website. Red Thread Advocates posts regular statistics to give an overall view of adoption trends.

Children with more minor, correctable needs are part of a monthly file release from CCCWA. Adoption agencies around the world lock files on those release dates in a matter of minutes. Nearly all of those files are matched with waiting families, however files not immediately matched are on the Shared List.