Number of U.S. Transplants Per Year, 1988–2008

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	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008¹
Heart	1,676	2,107	2,363	2,198	2,202	2,056	2,016	2,127	2,192	2,209	1,802
Heart/Lung	74	52	69	48	27	29	39	33	31	31	19
Intestine	—	5	46	82	111	116	152	178	175	198	155
Kidney	8,873	9,416	11,081	13,612	14,263	15,134	15,999	16,477	17,091	16,629	13,743
Kidney/Pancreas	171	459	919	915	891	870	880	903	924	862	705
Liver	1,713	2,690	3,934	4,995	5,185	5,669	6,167	6,444	6,650	6,494	5,273
Lung	33	203	872	959	1,058	1,085	1,173	1,408	1,405	1,468	1,221
Pancreas	78	69	109	472	438	502	603	541	463	469	370
Total: All organs	12,618	15,001	19,393	23,248	24,208	25,461	27,029	28,111	28,931	28,358	23,288

1. As of Jan. 9, 2009

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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