Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Race		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
White	Patients	4,699	5,109	5,375	5,390	5,899	6,048	6,189	6,435	6,313	6,164
	Deaths	682	657	650	602	648	620	657	632	599	487
	Rate	401.8	310.1	272.5	244.9	237.2	203.1	205.5	186.4	168.8	140.9
Black	Patients	598	719	779	835	905	960	956	1,056	1,073	994
	Deaths	92	106	99	108	106	100	109	121	99	88
	Rate	401.0	346.3	279.8	300.9	254.8	209.0	216.0	216.5	175.7	159.8
Asian	Patients	58	63	57	71	93	77	75	84	86	97
	Deaths	8	9	4	7	7	8	9	8	9	8
	Rate	551.5	523.9	213.2	258.9	201.3	275.5	305.7	205.2	244.5	191.3
Other	Patients	37	41	49	59	65	76	66	79	66	79
	Deaths	5	6	3	6	10	14	7	9	7	9
	Rate	468.9	445.5	170.4	257.7	444.0	524.4	211.8	243.3	193.3	286.4
Unknown	Patients	9	14	26	25	9	4	5	4	2	2
	Deaths	*	3	7	8	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Rate	*	591.7	557.4	527.6	*	*	*	*	*	*

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).