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At the end of March 2024, there were 153 patients in England waiting for a lung transplant, while Scotland and Wales each had 16 individuals on the lung transplant waiting list, followed by eight in Northern Ireland. 

Lung transplants carried out in the UK

In the year to March 2025, 151 lung transplants were carried out in the United Kingdom as a whole. This represented a eight percent increase on the number of transplants from the previous year. The majority of these (127) were carried out in England. A further eleven were performed in Scotland. 

Comparisons with Europe

The UK has a low rate of lung transplant procedures compared to other European nations at 2.1 lung transplants per million population as of 2023. This is much lower than the rate in Austria, which was at 13.8 per million population. The rate in the UK in 2022 only ranked above Hungary, Greece, and Lithuania.