Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Ethnicity		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	28,780	31,681	35,177	38,282	41,888	45,479	49,409	53,593	57,379	61,084
	Deaths	1,012	1,090	1,337	1,400	1,545	1,855	2,053	2,427	3,197	2,806
	Rate	55.4	53.0	56.9	54.3	53.7	57.5	57.7	62.4	75.7	61.4
Hispanic/Latino	Patients	2,312	2,837	3,484	4,308	4,867	5,169	5,939	6,688	7,297	8,107
	Deaths	52	55	76	128	151	172	198	276	379	294
	Rate	34.9	28.5	31.1	44.9	44.7	45.9	46.3	56.4	70.9	48.7
Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino	Patients	9,552	12,949	16,136	22,765	29,373	34,848	39,309	43,603	47,006	50,047
	Deaths	15	28	51	213	633	1,118	1,469	1,840	2,531	2,359
	Rate	2.6	3.5	5.0	15.6	33.6	47.1	53.1	58.8	73.4	63.1
Unknown	Patients	16,916	15,895	15,557	11,209	7,648	5,462	4,161	3,302	3,076	2,930
	Deaths	945	1,007	1,210	1,059	761	565	386	311	287	153
	Rate	85.4	94.4	112.0	113.8	116.9	118.7	107.3	115.4	120.7	65.9

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).