Transplant Statistics: Annual Report

Ethnicity		Year
		1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total	Patients	47,328	54,034	60,656	65,234	68,509	72,356	76,829	80,436	79,528	75,277
	Deaths	1,179	1,370	1,621	1,943	2,491	2,369	2,443	2,450	2,270	1,779
	Rate	28.8	28.9	30.8	34.8	42.2	37.5	36.6	36.1	35.2	37.1
Hispanic/Latino	Patients	3,268	3,986	4,800	5,374	6,050	6,665	7,265	7,861	7,999	7,912
	Deaths	68	78	106	108	147	147	157	164	159	149
	Rate	25.4	23.4	26.7	24.3	28.9	25.6	25.3	25.1	24.8	28.9
Non-Hispanic/Non-Latino	Patients	16,093	21,039	26,667	32,080	37,327	43,318	49,194	54,416	56,313	55,221
	Deaths	318	476	623	740	1,060	1,265	1,459	1,515	1,553	1,278
	Rate	23.8	27.6	28.5	28.4	34.4	34.7	35.0	33.6	34.5	36.8
Unknown	Patients	27,967	29,009	29,189	27,780	25,132	22,373	20,370	18,159	15,216	12,144
	Deaths	793	816	892	1,095	1,284	957	827	771	558	352
	Rate	31.9	30.4	33.4	43.2	55.6	45.8	44.1	47.4	42.5	43.8

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

The sample includes patients with a new or functioning transplant at any time during the year. The period at risk begins on the later of January 1 or the transplant date and ends on the earlier of December 31, the date of death, or the last date of follow-up. Please see Technical Notes chapter for further details about computation of death rates.

(-) = None in category.

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