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 2021 there were:
1,850 waiting
421 Organ Donors
1,174 transplant recipients
203 Living Organ Donors
203 Living Donors Recipients
331 Deceased Tissue Donors
497 Deceased Tissue Donations
1,472 Eye Donors
2,413 Corneal Recipients
2021 Organ Transplant Procedures:
657 kidney transplants
253 liver transplants
171 Lung transplants
112 Heart transplants
38 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.
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