Conor Stewart
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Get in touch with us nowMost of the patients active on the organ transplant waiting list in Denmark from 2020 to 2022 needed a new kidney. These patients amounted to 820 in 2022, a higher number than in 2021. The number of patients refers to the total number of people who were ever active on the waiting list during the year. The number of patients who received a new kidney in Denmark during 2022 amounted to 242.
Rate of kidney transplantation activity
The activity rate for organ transplantations in Denmark was higher for kidney transplants than for the other organs during the whole period from 2019 to 2021. The kidney transplantation activity rate however decreased over the period to 43.4 per million population.  
Highest waiting list death number for kidney patients
The highest number of deaths among patients on the transplant list was also among kidney patients. This number peaked in 2019, when 13 patients died while waiting for a new kidney. The number dropped again in 2021, when seven patients died.
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