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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.

The Australian Donation rate is currently 16.4 donors per million

The National Donation rate is calculated as ‘donors per million’