Organ Donation & Transplant Statistics

We keep records of the number of transplants and donors, and publish monthly updates and yearly summaries.

Monthly updates

Donors & transplants – monthly update

This is an update for the current year to date on the number of organ donors and transplants.

April 30, 2019

Number of donors registered in the BC Organ Donor Registry: 1,410,273

Organ donors

the number deceased donors originating in BC: 45
the number of deceased donor organs imported to BC: 3
the number of living donors: 25

Transplants

the total number of transplants performed to date: 160 (Note: Up to eight organs can be donated from a single deceased donor.)
the number of patients waiting for transplant: 704
the number of patients followed post transplant: 4,960

Current statistics (Apr 30, 2019) full summary

Yearly summaries

Transplants – yearly summary

This is a summary (by organ type) of the number of transplants performed in a year.

Organ donors – yearly summary

This is a summary (by donor type) of the number of organ donations made in a year.

Patient & graft survival rates – yearly summary

This is a summary (by organ type) of the rate of survival of organ recipients and of grafts (donated organs) 1 year, 3 years and 5 years after transplant.

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