Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Ethnicity		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	5,401	5,946	6,286	6,380	6,971	7,165	7,291	7,658	7,540	7,336
	Deaths	790	781	763	731	772	743	782	770	714	592
	Rate	404.1	317.4	273.7	253.6	240.4	206.9	207.5	191.2	170.5	145.0
Hispanic/Latino	Patients	174	220	245	282	368	373	423	461	463	494
	Deaths	25	19	19	16	39	36	53	48	46	35
	Rate	506.8	271.3	205.2	147.2	259.6	202.9	259.0	207.5	188.0	130.6
Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino	Patients	1,979	2,504	2,858	4,046	5,480	5,981	6,239	6,662	6,600	6,468
	Deaths	31	33	45	334	594	632	683	690	638	544
	Rate	46.3	33.7	40.1	243.2	277.2	229.4	226.8	206.5	179.3	154.9
Unknown	Patients	3,248	3,222	3,183	2,052	1,123	811	629	535	477	374
	Deaths	734	729	699	381	139	75	46	32	30	13
	Rate	593.8	516.6	444.2	272.0	151.4	114.1	83.4	70.4	77.9	43.0

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of August 1, 2001.

Patients alive on the waiting list at any time during the year are counted. Period at risk begins the later of January 1 or waiting list registration and ends on the earlier of December 31, date of death, or date of removal for other reasons. Please see Technical Notes chapter for further details about death rate computation.

(-) = None in category.

(*) = Values suppressed due to small N (0 to 9).