Do Americans support organ donation?

According to Donate Life America, while 95 percent of U.S. adults support organ donation, only 54 percent are actual registered donors.

What is the age range that has the highest organ donation numbers?

Those aged 35 to 49 years account for the largest portion of organ donors in the United States. Organs can be donated for transplantation from both living and deceased donors depending on the organ.

What percentage of Americans are organ donors?

But, according to Donate Life America, while 95 percent of U.S. adults support organ donation, only 54 percent are actual registered donors. What is the number of organ donors in Florida? Ten million Floridians have signed up as donors through Florida’s Joshua Abbott Organ and Tissue Donor Registry, the third largest in the nation.

How many people died waiting for organs?

Nationally, there are more than 100,000 people waiting for an organ transplant. Learn more about how the waiting list works below. Bill Murray was on the kidney transplant waiting list for five years, but sadly died before receiving his gift of life. When a medical evaluation by your transplant hospital confirms that you are a candidate for a transplant, you are added to the national waiting list maintained by The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).

What are facts about organ donation?

One organ and tissue donor can save up to 8 lives and help more than 75 people.

Anyone,regardless of age or medical history,can sign up to be a donor.

All major religions in the United States support organ and tissue donation and consider donation as a final act of love and generosity toward others.

How many organs are donated each year?

Thanks to the gift of life from organ donors and their families, the number of deceased organ donors and deceased-donor organ transplants performed in 2020 in the United States reached all-time highs. News: U.S. on pace to top 40,000 transplants in a single year for first time. Read more.