Current U.S. Waiting List

[okarol]

USA: As of today 112,182 people wait for organ transplants. Of those, 89,668 need a kidney. Source: http://twe.ly/Edrb

[coravh]

Wow. that's a lot of folks. I remember reading a stat a while back that suggested that if one in every 2000 available people donated a kidney, every person on the waiting list would be off dialysis or the list.

Cora

[okarol]

There are 300,000 Americans on dialysis at the current time, and not all are eligible for transplant, but the 1 in 2,000 is pretty accurate - the number of able bodied men and women in the U.S. population of 300 Million needed to end the wait list of nearly 90,000 patients.

[okarol]

Here is the breakdown of people on the waiting list (kidney) by age:

All ages          89,668
 < 1 Year                2
 1-5 Years           166
 6-10 Years         150
 11-17 Years       498
 18-34 Years    9,046
 35-49 Years  23,983
 50-64 Years  38,830
 65 +             17,007