in the general population. Among
adopted children, 6 percent
are under age3 compared with 16 percent of children in
the general population; see Figure 8.
Among other reasons, this age difference
is due to the fact that some children are
adopted at older ages, rather than as infants.
Additionally, the estimates presented here
are representative of children with finalized
adoptions, and adoptions typically take a
minimum of six months to finalize. Larger
percentages of internationally adopted
children are under age 5 (24 percent)
than are other adopted children (9 percent
for children adopted from foster care;
13 percent for those adopted privately
from the United States)
