Number of U.S. Transplants Per Year, 1988–2014

Updated May 8, 2019 | Infoplease Staff

The following table shows the number of transplants per year in the United States from 1988 to the present, according to types of organs including heart, liver, lung, pancreas, kidney, and intestine.

1988 1990 1995 2000 2001 2003 2005 2006 2008 2010 2012 20141
Heart 1,676 2,107 2,363 2,198 2,202 2,056 2,127 2,192 1,802 2,332 2,378 2,174
Heart/Lung 74 52 69 48 27 29 33 31 19 42 29 17
Intestine 5 46 82 111 116 178 175 155 151 106 111
Kidney 8,873 9,416 11,081 13,612 14,263 15,134 16,477 17,091 13,743 16,900 16,487 14,151
Kidney/Pancreas 171 459 919 915 891 870 903 924 705 828 801 586
Liver 1,713 2,690 3,934 4,995 5,185 5,669 6,444 6,650 5,273 6,291 6,256 5,527
Lung 33 203 872 959 1,058 1,085 1,408 1,405 1,221 1,769 1,754 1,611
Pancreas 78 69 109 472 438 502 541 463 370 349 242 206
Total: All organs 12,618 15,001 19,393 23,248 24,208 25,461 28,111 28,931 23,288 28,662 28,053 24,383
1. As of Jan. 23, 2015
NOTE: Kidney-pancreas transplants are counted apart from kidney transplants and pancreas transplants and do not show up in the totals for the individual organs. Double kidney, double lung, and heart-lung transplants are each counted as one transplant. All other multi-organ transplants are included in the total for each individual organ.
Source: National Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network.

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