• More than 98,000 men, women and children currently await life-saving transplants.
• There are 1,946 children under the age of 18 currently waiting.
• Every 13 minutes another name is added to the national transplant waiting list.
• An average of 18 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant.
  
  

• Transplant Waiting List

Listed below is summary transplantation data for the entire United States, including the number of candidates currently on the waiting list, by organ type. You can also find totals for the number of transplants performed and donors recovered during the time periods specified below.

 

Waiting list candidates as of February 4, 2008   All 98,029 Kidney 74,394 Pancreas 1,614 Kidney/Pancreas 2,261 Liver 16,512 Intestine 226 Heart 2,648 Lung 2,159 Heart/Lung 104 All candidates will be less than the sum due to candidates waiting for multiple organs     Transplants performed January - November 2007   Total 26,021 Deceased Donor 20,210 Living Donor 5,811 Based on OPTN data as of 02/01/2008     Donors recovered January - November 2007   Total 13,223 Deceased Donor 7,413 Living Donor 5,810 Based on OPTN data as of 02/01/2008

 

Source:  Transplant Patient  DataSource.  Richmond, VA:
United Network for Organ Sharing.  Retrieved:  
February 4, 2008 from the World Wide Web:
http://www.unos.org/data