Answered By: Bobray Bordelon
Last Updated: Feb 19, 2024     Views: 101

Start with IRODaT - the International Registry on Organ Donation and Transplantation database.  Includes 98 countries with covering back to 1996.  Also see its IRODaT newslettter

Also see the Newsletter Transplant which provides a very rich source of statistics on "International Figures on Donation and Transplantation" with numbers back to 2003.

For the United States, also see the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network and the United States Renal Data System.

For OECD countries, also see OECD Health Data. Information is given for kidney transplants under Health care utilisation -- surgical procedures shortlist.

For Singapore, see the Singapore Renal Registry.

For Korea, see KOTRY, Korean Organ Transplantation Registry.

The European Heart and Lung Transplant Federation has many useful publications on policy.

The Transplantation Society provides some free information on their website.

See the National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearinghouse.

Wikipedia has a useful article on the organ trade, legal and illegal.  Also see the Joint Council of Europe/United Nations Trafficking in organs, tissues and cells and trafficking in human beings for the purpose of the removal of organsHavoscope: Global Black Market Information had prices from news sources on Organ Trafficking Prices and Kidney Transplant Sales.

See the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.

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