Global transplantation: Lessons from organ transplantation organizations worldwide

Table 1 Countries performing organ transplants by continent

Region	Country	Ref.
North and Central America	United States, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados	[12,13]
South America	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay
Europe	The 27 member states of the European Union, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Belarus, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Moldova, Albania, Norway, Iceland, and Turkey
Asia	Armenia, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mongolia, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Korea, Syria, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, and Vietnam
Oceania	Australia and New Zealand
Africa	South Africa, Sudan, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Kenya, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Namibia, Tanzania, and Mauritius

Table 2 Annual (2022) overview of transplantation activity by region

Region	Deceased donors	Living donors	Total number of organ transplants	Ref.
Americas	20946	10527	62180	[12]
Europe	11649	9816	40337
Western Pacific	6702	8535	29014
South-East Asia	1244	13824	17214
Eastern Mediterranean	1251	5674	8490
Africa	-	286	286

Table 3 Annual (2023) overview of Eurotransplant and Scandiatransplant

	Year	Number of member countries	Organ donors	Deceased donors	Living donors	Total Tx	Tx within the alliance	Organs exchanged	Ref.
Eurotransplant	2023	8	2079	2079	-	6815	6771	1471 within Eurotransplant and 44 to non-member, European countries	[40]
Scandiatransplant	2023	6	690	678	12	2316	2305	546 within Scandiatransplant and 11 to non-member, European countries	[41]

Tx: Transplantations.