Organ procurement and transplantation activity in 2023 and 2024 opinion barometer

Key figures for 2023 (vs. 2022)

• 5,634 organ transplants (+ 2.5%)
• Of which 577 live donor transplants (+ 8.3%)
• 3,132 donors registered (+ 4.9%), 1,512 harvested (+ 3.6%) in brain death condition
• 36.1% opposed (+ 9.4%)
• 823 deceased patients on waiting list (- 22.6%)
• Still more than 21,866 patients awaiting transplantation, including 11,422 on the active list

"As in previous years, the Agence de la biomédecine would like to thank the hospital teams for their strong mobilization and ability to adapt, enabling the growth of this activity, which is both a medical and logistical feat. For a patient to receive a transplant and continue to live, it requires extraordinary coordination, which succeeds 15 times a day: it starts with approaching the deceased's next of kin, identifying compatible recipient patients, harvesting and transporting each graft to its destination, and finally, transplanting the recipient patients. In the midst of everyday life, convoys like no other carry an organ destined to save a life, sometimes a young child, sometimes an older person. There's no age limit to receiving an organ, just as there's no age limit to donating them: we're all concerned, all donors, all recipients."

Marine Jeantet, Director General of the Agence de la biomédecine.