Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Gender		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
Female	Patients	1,023	1,165	1,248	1,349	1,501	1,543	1,673	1,797	1,818	1,783
	Deaths	149	147	140	146	150	154	171	176	154	152
	Rate	498.8	374.8	290.2	277.3	243.9	213.0	218.3	200.1	166.4	164.0
Male	Patients	4,378	4,781	5,038	5,031	5,470	5,622	5,618	5,861	5,722	5,553
	Deaths	641	634	623	585	622	589	611	594	560	440
	Rate	387.0	306.5	270.2	248.3	239.6	205.4	204.7	188.7	171.7	139.4

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).