Save A Life Today; Surprising Facts About Organ Donation

Organ Donation Fast Facts Continued

Statistics for the national waiting list alone indicates that almost two-thirds of patients waiting for a transplant are over the age of fifty, almost two-thousand patients are children (under eighteen), and approximately seventy thousand or fifty-eight percent on the list are ethnic minorities comprised of African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and others. The most common organ patients are anxiously waiting for is a kidney - at eighty-three percent as of 2017 - with 19,062 kidney transplants performed in 2016 alone. Transplantation statistics show eighty patients will receive a transplant a day in the U.S. The majority of these recipients being Caucasian (at fifty-six percent) with sixty-two percent being male, and thirty-eight percent being female. Donation statistics reveal 41,355 donations were made as of 2016, and ⅘ of these donors were deceased white males over the age of fifty.

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