Thank you to everyone who has signed up on the donor registry!

Quick Facts

• 18 people will die today awaiting an organ transplant in the United States.
• The number of men, women and children in the U.S. waiting for an organ transplant is over 112,500 with 2,700 of those living in the Pacific Northwest.
• 70% of Oregonians 18 years and older are registered donors

Why Numbers Matter

Donate Life Northwest subscribes to the importance of tracking and evaluating program outcomes, the most obvious and important outcome being the number of lives saved through donation and transplantation.

The number of registered donors matters. When an individual documents on a donor registry their decision to be a donor, their family is relieved of the burden of making the donation decision at the time of their loves one's death.

Knowing whether an outreach effort is efficient and effective and how Donate Life Northwest program outcomes compare to those in other states is a barometer used for program planning and tailoring.

Donate Life America maintains a national dashboard, updated quarterly. It tracks the number of organ, eye and tissue donors and how many were signed up on a donor registry. The rate at which a state's population is signing up as donors and the percent of the state's licensed drivers on the donor registry is also tracked.

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Local Statistics - 2011 

For more up to date information, please contact Donate Life Northwest. More information is also available at:

 Number of Deceased Donors in Oregon and SW Washington

• Organ Donors: 73 - 48% registered
• Tissue Donors: 696 - 53% registered
• Eye Donors: 1,530 - 54% registered 

Number of Transplants Resulting from Donors in Oregon and SW Washington

• Organs: 274
• Tissues: 34,277
• Corneas: 1,649
  

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National Statistics

Waiting List Numbers - December 2011

• 90,495 waiting for a kidney transplant. (80%) 
• 16,190 waiting for a liver transplant (14.4%)
• 1,326 waiting for a pancreas transplant (1.2%)
• 2,109 waiting for a kidney-pancreas transplant (1.9%)
• 274 waiting for an intestine transplant
• 3,155 waiting for a heart transplant (2.8%)
• 65 waiting for a heart-lung transplant.
• 1,700 waiting for a lung transplant (1.5%)

112,657    TOTAL PATIENTS*

Includes 62,648 multi-cultural and 1,800 pediatric patients

*  Some patients are waiting for more than one organ, therefore the total number of patients is less than the sum of patients waiting for each organ.

Transplants Performed - Jan. 1 - Oct. 31, 2011**

• 12,536 kidney transplants (4,310 living donors)
• 4,734  liver transplants (180 living donors)
• 218 pancreas transplants.
• 616 kidney-pancreas transplant.
• 103 intestine transplants.
• 1,760 heart transplants.
• 16 heart-lung transplants.
• 1,371 lung transplants.

21,354    TOTAL

Donors Recovered Jan. 1 - Oct. 31, 2011**

• 10,558   Deceased
• 6,559     Living

        10,556     TOTAL

** Based on OPTN data as of December 31, 2011.  Double kidney, double lung and heart-lung transplants are counted as one transplant.  
NOTE:  Data subject to change due to future data submission or correction.

For a more comprehensive list of the most current statistics, visit the United Network for Organ Sharing.

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