Statistics
The numbers below represent real people - family, friends and
neighbors.
It is the goal of the Department of the Secretary of
State,
along with its
organ donation partners, to decrease the
number of people waiting for
a transplant.
You can help by adding your name to the Maine Organ Donor Registry.
In the United States in 2011:
● More than 112,637 people are waiting for an organ transplant.
● On average, 18 people die each day waiting for a transplant.
● Every 11 minutes a new name is added to the national waiting list.
In Maine:
● 26 organ donors, in 2011, made 91 life-saving organ transplants possible;
● 226 tissue donors, in 2011, helped save and improve many lives;
● 114 people are currently awaiting a kidney; and
● 1 person is currently awaiting a pancreas.
In New England, the current waitlist (which includes Mainers listed at out-of-state hospitals) has:
● 4,588 people awaiting a life saving organ;
● 3,427 people awaiting a kidney;
● 823 people awaiting a liver;
● 99 people awaiting a pancreas;
● 85 people awaiting a kidney/pancreas;
● 187 people awaiting a heart;
● 91 people awaiting a lung;
● 2 people awaiting an intestine.
Tragically, 300 people from New England died while waiting for an organ transplant in 2011.
