The U.S. reached a historic milestone in 2022: 1 million transplants

Getting to the next million, together

UNet

Innovative technologies saving lives and supporting members

Following the gift of life

UNOS’ real-time organ tracking service

1 million new beginnings. Learn how donors, recipients and their loved ones are Living It Forward.

Employing new technologies to save more lives

UNOS partnered with industry leader Nutanix to strengthen our cutting-edge IT infrastructure.

Helping more kidney patients, faster

UNOS technology: The free, data-driven tool aims to increase kidney utilization by helping transplant professionals make decisions, faster.

Offer Filters is available to all kidney programs.

Equity means providing a transplant for every single patient that needs one

The community is developing a more equitable system of allocating deceased donor organs. Learn how this approach, called continuous distribution, will help patients.

Increasing equity together

How do we track policy success?

We look at the data. Kidney transplant volumes up across all ethnicities, and blood types. Liver transplants increased by 4.3 percent since policy implementation.

Policy monitoring

Optimizing our nation’s strong transplant system to change these numbers

U.S. reaches historic milestone of 1 million transplants. Learn how we’re getting to the next million, together

Right now

105,867

people need an organ transplant*

This year

13,929

donors
January - August 2022 as of 09/27/2022

led to

28,178

transplants
January - August 2022 as of 09/27/2022

*Learn more about waiting for an organ transplant.

13,929

donors
January - August 2022 as of 09/27/2022

Why be an organ donor?

Currently, more than 100,000 men, women and children are awaiting organ transplants in the U.S.

1 organ donor can save up to 8 lives.

Organ transplants save an average of 113 lives a day

We’re working to increase this number. You can help.