Foster care disproportionality in states with largest Native populations

The disproportionality rate shows how much American Indian/Alaska Native children are overrepresented in the foster care system. In the U.S. overall, AI/AN children are in foster care at a rate three times greater than their proportion of the general population — in Minnesota, it's 15 times.

Created from the 2019 NICWA Disproportionality in Child Welfare Fact Sheet. The disproportionality rate compares the population rate of AI/AN children in a state, including AI/AN children both on and off tribal lands, to the rate of AI/AN children in that state foster care system.
Chart: Jessica Washington Source: National Indian Child Welfare Association Get the data