Statistics on Organ Donation & Transplantation

• More than 111,000 men, women and children currently need life-saving organ transplants.
  
  
• Every 10 minutes another name is added to the national organ transplant waiting list.
  
  
• An average of 20 people die each day from the lack of available organs for transplant.
  
  
• One donor can save up to 8 lives.
  
  
• More than 50 people can be helped from one tissue donor.
  
  
• In 2010, there were 7,943 deceased organ donors and 6,565 living organ donors resulting in 28,663 organ transplants.
  
  
• Last year, more than 42,000 grafts were made available for transplant by eye banks within the United States.
  
  
• According to research, 98% of all adults have heard about organ donation and 86% have heard of tissue donation.
  
  
• 90% of Americans say they support donation, but only 30% know the essential steps to take to be a donor.
  
  
• At the end of 2010 94.7 million people were enrolled in state donor registries (approximately 40% of people 18 and older).
  

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