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At the end of March 2025, there were 6,557 patients on the active transplant list in the United Kingdom (UK) waiting for a kidney transplant. The number of individuals waiting for a kidney transplant dwarfed the number of patients waiting for any other organ in the country. Those waiting for a liver transplant had the second-highest number of active patients at 623, followed by 316 waiting for kidney and pancreas transplant.

Transplant activity in the UK

In the period 2024/25, 2,337 kidney transplants took place in the UK. In the year 2023, the rate of kidney transplant was 49.8 transplants per million population, the highest rate of any organ transplantation in that year. Liver transplants had a rate of 13 transplants per million, and then heart transplants followed with a rate of 3.5 per million population. 

Kidney transplants in the rest of Europe

With a kidney transplant rate of 49.8 per million, the UK had the seventh-highest rate in Europe in 2023. Spain had the highest rate, with 77.7 transplants per million population.