Data and trends
Reports and dashboards
UNOS collects and reports data on every U.S. organ donor, transplant candidate, recipient and outcome. The data is used to study and advance transplant, inform policy development and help professionals make informed decisions.
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Continuous improvement: Transplant statistics
The U.S. system for organ donation and recovery is among the best in the world. But there is more that we can and must do. UNOS works with the organ donation and transplant community to drive improvement and save more lives.
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2022 donors, deceased and living
January - August 2022 as of 10/02/2022
2022 transplants
January - August 2022 as of 10/02/2022
Currently, 105,788 men, women and children are awaiting organ transplants from living or deceased donors in the United States.
More than 6,500
living donor transplants in 2021
The number of living donor transplants has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. But living donor transplants have increased 14.2 percent over the 2020 total.
11th consecutive record-breaking year
More than 13,800
deceased donors in 2021
Even with a 34.7% increase in deceased donation over the last five years, the need for organ donors is immense.
updated daily
Current state of organ donation and transplantation: Transplant trends
About the dashboard
This dashboard can be used to explore transplant and donor trends and key statistics. This data visualization shows high-level data on transplants, deceased donors recovered, patients added to the waitlist and patients temporarily moved to inactive waitlist status*. It is updated daily. Find detailed and localized data through the preceding month in the OPTN website’s data section.
*A temporary inactivation means that the transplant program has determined that a candidate is temporarily unavailable or unsuitable for transplantation and should not receive organ offers. The transplant program may reactivate the candidate at any time.
This dashboard is updated monthly, typically during the third week of the month. You may experience short periods of temporary interruption during this time.