• 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 May 1, 2009   All 102,072 Kidney 79,696 Pancreas 1,505 Kidney/Pancreas 2,248 Liver 15,853 Intestine 213 Heart 2,793 Lung 1,956 Heart/Lung 84 All candidates will be less than the sum due to candidates waiting for multiple organs     Transplants performed January - January 2009   Total 2,357 Deceased Donor 1,845 Living Donor 512 Based on OPTN data as of 04/24/2009     Donors recovered January - January 2009   Total 1,170 Deceased Donor 660 Living Donor 510 Based on OPTN data as of 04/24/2009

 

 

Source:  Transplant Patient  DataSource.  Richmond, VA:
United Network for Organ Sharing.  Retrieved:  
May 1, 2009 from the World Wide Web:
http://www.unos.org/data