The U.S. State Department’s Annual Report on Intercountry Adoption (for Fiscal Year 2011) shows a total of 9,320 incoming intercountry adoptions and 73 outgoing intercountry adoptions.  The countries of origin from which the largest numbers of children came to the United States were China (2589), Ethiopia (1727), Russia (970), South Korea (736) and Ukraine (632). These numbers have dropped steadily since 2004, when the number of incoming intercountry adoption visas peaked at 22, 991.