• More than 100,000 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 September 30, 2009   All 103,952 Kidney 81,545 Pancreas 1,485 Kidney/Pancreas 2,188 Liver 15,929 Intestine 230 Heart 2,874 Lung 1,882 Heart/Lung 83 All candidates will be less than the sum due to candidates waiting for multiple organs     Transplants performed January - June 2009   Total 14,191 Deceased Donor 10,970 Living Donor 3,221 Based on OPTN data as of 09/25/2009     Donors recovered January - June 2009   Total 7,249 Deceased Donor 4,027 Living Donor 3,222 Based on OPTN data as of 09/25/2009

 

 

Source:  Transplant Patient  DataSource.  Richmond, VA:
United Network for Organ Sharing.  Retrieved:  
September 30, 2009 from the World Wide Web:
http://www.unos.org/data