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An '''orphan''' (from the [[Greek language|Greek]]: ορφανός, <small>[[Romanization of Greek|romanized]]:</small> orphanós) is a child whose parents have died.
In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents due to death is called an orphan. When referring to animals, only the mother's condition is usually relevant (i.e. if the female parent has gone, the offspring is an orphan, regardless of the father's condition).
== Definitions ==
Orphan on mother's grave by [[Uroš Predić]] in 1888.
Various groups use different definitions to identify orphans. One legal definition used in the [[United States]] is a [[Minor (law)|minor]]<nowiki/>bereft through "death or disappearance of, abandonment or desertion by, or separation or loss from, both parents".
In the common use, an orphan does not have any surviving parent to care for them. However, the [[United Nations Children's Fund]] (UNICEF), [[Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS]](UNAIDS), and other groups label any child who has lost one parent as an orphan. In this approach, a maternal orphan is a child whose mother has died, a paternal orphan is a child whose father has died, and a double orphan is a child/teen/infant who has lost both parents. This contrasts with the older use of half-orphan to describe children who had lost only one parent.
== Populations ==
An Afghan girl at a [[Kabul|Kabul, Afghanistan]]<nowiki/>orphanage in January 2002
Orphans are relatively rare in developed countries, because most children can expect both of their parents to survive their childhood. Much higher numbers of orphans exist in war-torn nations such as [[Afghanistan]].
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Continent
!Number of
orphans (1000s)
!Orphans as percentage
of all children
|-
|Africa
|34,294
|11.9%
|-
|Asia
|65,504
|6.5%
|-
|Latin America & Caribbean
|8,166
|7.4%
|-
|Total
|107,964
|7.6%
|}
{| class="wikitable"
!Country
!Orphans as % of all children
!AIDS orphans as % of orphans
!Total orphans
!Total orphans (AIDS related)
!Maternal (total)
!Maternal (AIDS related)
!Paternal (total)
!Paternal (AIDS related)
!Double (total)
!Double (AIDS related)
|-
|[[Botswana]](1990)
|5.9
|3.0
|34,000
|1,000
|14,000
|< 100
|23,000
|1,000
|2,000
|< 100
|-
|Botswana (1995)
|8.3
|33.7
|55,000
|18,000
|19,000
|7,000
|37,000
|13,000
|5,000
|3,000
|-
|Botswana (2001)
|15.1
|70.5
|98,000
|69,000
|69,000
|58,000
|91,000
|69,000
|62,000
|61,000
|-
|[[Lesotho]](1990)
|10.6
|2.9
|73,000
|< 100
|31,000
|< 100
|49,000
|< 100
|8,000
|< 100
|-
|Lesotho (1995)
|10.3
|5.5
|77,000
|4,000
|31,000
|1,000
|52,000
|4,000
|7,000
|1,000
|-
|Lesotho (2001)
|17.0
|53.5
|137,000
|73,000
|66,000
|38,000
|108,000
|63,000
|37,000
|32,000
|-
|[[Malawi]](1990)
|11.8
|5.7
|524,000
|30,000
|233,000
|11,000
|346,000
|23,000
|55,000
|6,000
|-
|Malawi (1995)
|14.2
|24.6
|664,000
|163,000
|305,000
|78,000
|442,000
|115,000
|83,000
|41,000
|-
|Malawi (2001)
|17.5
|49.9
|937,000
|468,000
|506,000
|282,000
|624,000
|315,000
|194,000
|159,000
|-
|[[Uganda]](1990)
|12.2
|17.4
|1,015,000
|177,000
|437,000
|72,000
|700,000
|138,000
|122,000
|44,000
|-
|Uganda (1995)
|14.9
|42.4
|1,456,000
|617,000
|720,000
|341,000
|1,019,000
|450,000
|282,000
|211,000
|-
|Uganda (2001)
|14.6
|51.1
|1,731,000
|884,000
|902,000
|517,000
|1,144,000
|581,000
|315,000
|257,000
|}
* 2001 figures from 2002 UNICEF/UNAIDS report
* '''[[People's Republic of China|China]]''': A survey conducted by the [[Ministry of Civil Affairs]] in 2005 showed that China has about 573,000 orphans below 18 years old.
* '''[[Russia]]''': According to Russian reports from 2002 cited in the New York Times, 650,000 children are housed in orphanages. They are released at age 16, and 40% become homeless, while 30% become criminals or commit [[suicide]].
* [[Street children in Latin America|Latin America]]: Street children have a major presence in Latin America; some estimate that there are as many as 40 million street children in Latin America. Although not all street children are orphans, all street children work and many do not have significant family support.
* '''[[United States]]''': About 2 million children in the United States (or about 2.7 percent of children) have a deceased mother or father. About 100,000 children have lost both parents.
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