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Mayo patients do well before and after liver transplant. Of the 16,000 people on liver transplant lists in the United States, 6,300 undergo transplantation each year, and 1,400 others die waiting. Short- and long-term survival statistics and wait list deaths for more than 100 U.S. transplant centers are easily accessible at the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) website.
1 It happens every 10 minutes. 2  Each day, an average of 79 people receive organ transplants. 3  However, an average of 21 people die each day waiting for transplants that can't take place because of the shortage of donated organs. In 2014, 29,532 people received organ transplants. 2  Below is the number of recipients by age group followed by the number who received organs from deceased and living donors: 3  1 - 5 Years: 503 (417 deceased, 86 living donors). 4  6 - 10 Years: 284 (226 deceased, 58 living donors).