Newsletter Transplant 2025: Organ Donation and Transplantation Data

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Published November 5th, 2025

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The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) has published the 'Newsletter Transplant 2025', detailing global organ donation and transplantation activities in 2024. The report indicates a 2% increase in global transplants, with 44,021 procedures performed in Council of Europe member states.

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The European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM) has released its 'Newsletter Transplant 2025', presenting data on organ donation and transplantation activities worldwide for 2024. The report highlights a global increase of 2% in organ transplants, driven by donation after circulatory determination of death. It also notes that 44,021 organ transplants were performed in Council of Europe member states, with 94,644 patients on waiting lists and over 8,500 deaths due to lack of available organs.

This publication serves as an informational resource for public health authorities and healthcare providers involved in organ donation and transplantation. While it does not impose new regulatory requirements, it provides crucial data for benchmarking and improving transplantation systems. Regulated entities should review the data to understand global trends and the ongoing challenges in organ availability and equitable access.

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A new edition of Newsletter Transplant has just been published, presenting data on organ donation and transplantation activities worldwide in 2024. This year’s report covers a record 92 countries. Organ transplantation activities increased globally by 2% in 2024, driven primarily by a rise in donation after the circulatory determination of death. Nearly 30% of deceased donors were declared dead by circulatory criteria, marking a shift in global practices.

Newsletter Transplant is produced annually thanks to the invaluable support of the Spanish Organización Nacional de Trasplantes (ONT), which co-ordinates the collection, compilation and analysis of international data annually through a vast network of health authorities and officially designated individuals involved in donation and transplantation activities. Prepared under the aegis of the European Committee on Organ Transplantation (CD-P-TO) of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & HealthCare (EDQM), Council of Europe, it is part of a co-ordinated effort to benchmark donation and transplantation programmes with a view to increasing organ availability and improving the effectiveness of transplantation systems.

While 44 021 organ transplants were performed in 1 023 transplantation centres throughout the Council of Europe member states, another 94 644 patients were awaiting an organ transplant at the end of 2024 and over 8 500 people died while on a waiting list last year, or an average of almost 24 patients every day.

Find out more in the press release “ Newsletter Transplant 2025 – Transparency, ethical governance and equitable access ”.

The Newsletter Transplant can be downloaded for free at https://go.edqm.eu/NLTransplant; paper copies can be ordered through the EDQM WebStore: https://store.edqm.eu.

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