• Approximately 78 organ transplants take place every day in the United States
• On average, a single tissue donor can save or enhance the lives of up to 50 people
• More than 28,000 patients began new lives in 2012 thanks to organ transplants
• Over 42,500 patients had their sight restored last year through cornea transplants
• A living donor can provide a kidney or a portion of their liver, lung, pancreas or intestine
• The number of unrelated living donors has more than tripled since 1998
• To learn more about living donation visit www.transplantliving.org/living-donation
• Sadly, an average of 18 patients die every day while waiting, simply because the organ they needed did not become available in time
• On average, 138 people are added to the nation’s organ transplant waiting list each day—nearly one every 10 minutes
• More than 120,000 men, women and children are currently waiting for an organ transplant in the U.S. Over 1,800 of them are Pediatric Patients* and more than 67,000 areMulticultural Patients*
• In 2012, there were 14,013 Organ Donors resulting in 28,052 organ transplants
• Nearly 30% of patients awaiting transplants are African American
• More than 46,000 corneas were transplanted in 2012
• More than 1 million tissue transplants are done each year and the surgical need for tissue has been steadily rising
• More than 100 million people, nearly 43 percent of the U.S. adult population, are registered as organ, eye and tissue donors
• To register to be an organ, eye and tissue donor visit https://donatelifela.org.