Active organ waiting list in the United Kingdom (UK) 2024

At the end of March 2024, there were 5,898 patients on the active transplant list in the United Kingdom (UK) waiting for a kidney transplant. The number of individuals waiting for a kidney transplant dwarfed the number of patients waiting for any other organ in the country. Those waiting for a liver transplant had the second-highest number of active patients at 639, followed by 297 waiting for kidney and pancreas transplant.

Transplant activity in the UK

In the period 2022/23, 2,263 kidney transplants took place in the UK. In the year 2020, the rate of kidney transplant was 46.6 transplants per million population, the highest rate of any organ transplantation in that year. Liver transplants had a rate of 13.5 transplants per million, and then heart transplants followed with a rate of 2.9 per million population.

Kidney transplants in the rest of Europe

With a kidney transplant rate of 46.6 per million, the UK had the sixth-highest rate in Europe in 2022. Spain had the highest rate, with 72.9 transplants per million population.