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The statistic changes every year for the US, but it's always somewhere between 2-5%. That's still several million.
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Without having seen the statistics, I suspect you're talking about kids in need of foster care, rather than orphans. There's no way that the parents of 2-5% of children in the US are both dead.
Foster care is a very different legal situation. You're not their legal parent and you really don't get a chance to raise the child as your own. They can be taken back if their parents clean their act up.
I only know the stats for Australia, but on a national level (population of 23 million), there are something like 8 internal adoptions every year. By 'internal', I mean Australian parents adopting Australian-born children. And most of those are children being adopted by members of their extended family.