The following statistics on organ donation in Australia have been compiled from the Australian and New Zealand Organ Donor Registry (ANZOD). For more information, visit www.anzdata.org.au
In 2022 there were:
1,850 waiting
454 Organ Donors
1,224 transplant recipients
224 Living Organ Donors
224 Living Donors Recipients
276 Deceased Tissue Donors
497 Deceased Tissue Donations
1,477 Eye Donors
2,340 Corneal Recipients
2022 Organ Transplant Procedures:
713 kidney transplants
260 liver transplants
142 Lung transplants
117 Heart transplants
47 Pancreas transplants
2 Small intestine transplant
At any one time there are 1,850 people on the transplant waiting list. But this is only the tip of the iceberg – there are 13,000 people on dialysis who could benefit from a transplant.
