More than 4,000 children were adopted between April 2023 and March 2024, a number reached for the first time post-pandemic. According to government data, in 2023-24, 4009 children were adopted by families in India and abroad. In the 2018-19, 4027 children were adopted.
Even after India took steps to speed up the child adoption process, the pandemic saw a decline in adoptions with 3,745 children being adopted in 2019-20, 3,559 adopted in 2020-21, 3,405 adopted in 2021-22, and 3,441 adopted in 2022-23.
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