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 2020 there were:
1,650 waiting
463 Organ Donors
1,452 transplant recipients
182 Living Organ Donors
182 Living Organ Donors
290 Deceased Tissue Donors
442 Deceased Tissue Donations
1,318 Eye Donors
2,277 Corneal Recipients
2019 Organ Transplant Procedures:
704 kidney transplants
276 liver transplants
158 Lung transplants
148 Heart transplants
47 Pancreas transplants
1 Small intestine transplant
At any one time there are 1,600 people on the transplant waiting list. But this is only the tip of the iceberg – there are 12,000 people on dialysis who could benefit from a transplant.
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