With more than 6,000 transplants in 2024, activity exceeds pre-Covid levels

6,034 transplants were performed in 2024, a remarkable level not reached since 2017. Activity continues to increase in line with the growth curves defined by the 2022-2026 Ministerial Plan for organ and tissue procurement and transplantation. Our efforts and strategy are bearing fruit, with 401 more transplants than in 2023 (+7.1%).

Despite the fact that the opposition remains at an unprecedented level of 36.4% (53.5% in Ile-de-France), the growth in activity is mainly due to a sharp rise in the number of heart-stop transplants (DDAC M3, +12.8%), but also to a steady increase in the number of brain-dead donors registered (3169 in 2024, +1.2%) and transplants performed (1544, +2.1%).

This year, transplant activity grew faster (+7.1%) than the number of active registrants on the national waiting list (+5.5%). If this trend continues, it represents a major hope for all patients waiting for a transplant.

Transplantation is a vital medical activity, used as a last resort in the care of seriously ill patients. It relies on the extensive and complex mobilization of intensive care teams, hospital donation and retrieval coordinators, Agence de la biomédecine regulation and dispatch teams, transplant physicians, and the entire healthcare chain. Although the number of deaths on the waiting list fell by 9.8% in 2024, 852 patients still died this year for lack of access to a transplant.

• 6,034 organ transplants (+7.1%), or an average of 17 transplants per day;
• 614 living-donor transplants, including 598 kidney transplants (+ 7.4%);
• 3,169 brain-dead donors registered, 1,544 harvested;
• In 36.4% of cases, the donor's next of kin reported opposition.
• With 53.5% of opposition reported by relatives, Ile-de-France is now the region with the highest opposition rate;
• 852 deceased patients on the waiting list, a significant drop of 9.8% compared with 2023;
• 22,585 patients on the national transplant waiting list, including 11,666 on the active list at January 01, 2025;
• 8,378 new patients were registered on the national waiting list in 2024;
• This year, the number of transplants rose faster (+7.1%) than the number of patients on the active national waiting list (+5.5%).

Agence de la biomédecine press contact: Gantzer: dons-organes@gantzeragency.com