Current Statistics

The Need for Organs

An Average of 17 People Die each Day Waiting for a Transplant.

Last year, more than 25,000 lives in the United States were saved through organ transplants. However, more than 96,000 people, including more than 800 Indiana residents, are currently waiting for life-saving organ transplants. Another man, woman, or child is added to the transplant waiting list every 12 minutes. That's less time than it will take you to review the information on this Web site. Sadly, due to the critical shortage of organs, many of these people will not get a second chance at life.

	U.S.	Indiana
Heart	2,658	32
Heart/Lung	100	0
Lung	2,098	46
Islet Cells	N/A	N/A
Liver	16,367	45
Kidney,	76,629	814
Kidney/Pancreas	2,283	51
Pancreas	1,627	14
Intestine	228	6
Total Patients*	*98,525	939
Revised 05/05/2008
LAST YEAR IN INDIANA: (IOPO Numbers)
Organ donors		128
Organs recovered		500
Organs transplanted		430
Tissue donors		376
Revised 01/28/2008
Due to the shortage of donated organs, each year approximately 6,000 people in the U.S. die while waiting for a transplant.

NOTE: UNOS/OPTN policies allow patients to be listed with more than one transplant center (multiple-listing), thus the number of registrations is greater than the actual number of patients.