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.