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Year	Adoption as a percentage of live births
1881	0.005
1882	0.16
1883	0.11
1884	0.16
1885	0.14
1886	0.25
1887	0.28
1888	0.32
1889	0.26
1890	0.34
1891	0.37
1892	0.28
1893	0.29
1894	0.37
1895	0.36
1896	0.42
1897	0.48
1898	0.54
1899	0.6
1900	0.64
1901	0.67
1902	0.72
1903	0.73
1904	0.75
1905	0.78
1906	0.8
1907	0.82
1908	0.84
1909	0.81
1910	0.72
1911	0.84
1912	0.84
1913	0.88
1914	0.9
1915	0.88
1916	0.95
1917	0.94
1918	1.08
1919	1.56
1920	1.67
1921	2.04
1922	1.3
1923	1.42
1924	0.66
1925	1.98
1926	1.42
1927	1.51
1928	1.5
1929	1.5
1930	1.44
1931	1.24
1932	1.35
1933	1.36
1934	1.39
1935	1.42
1936	1.66
1937	1.71
1938	2.09
1939	1.84
1940	1.93
1941	1.6
1942	2.3
1943	1.84
1944	3.91
1945	3.22
1946	3.28
1947	2.99
1948	3.08
1949	2.84
1950	2.83
1951	3.15
1952	3.08
1953	3.11
1954	2.78
1955	2.92
1956	1.76
1957	3.26
1958	3.11
1959	4.21
1960	4.04
1961	4.47
1962	4.06
1963	4.4
1964	4.63
1965	5.14
1966	5.77
1967	5.76
1968	6.09
1969	6.23
1970	6.18
1971	6.17
1972	5.76
1973	5.8
1974	5.67
1975	5.87
1976	5.34
1977	4.71
1978	4.81
1979	4.21
1980	4.26
1981	3.67
1982	4.7
1983	3.66
1984	3.23
1985	2.78
1986	2.33
1987	2.19
1988	1.75
1989	1.53
1990	1.51
1991	1.34
1992	1.34
1993	1.25
1994	1.19
1995	1.11

"Source: Keith C. Griffith, New Zealand adoption: history and practice, social and legal, 1840-1996. Wellington: K. C. Griffith, 1997, p. 116"	

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