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Mayo patients do well before and after liver transplant. Of the 16,000 people on liver transplant lists in the United States, 6,300 undergo transplantation each year, and 1,400 others die waiting. Short- and long-term survival statistics and wait list deaths for more than 100 U.S. transplant centers are easily accessible at the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) website.
Statistics. 1  139,999 liver transplants from 1988 through 2015. 2  14,794 currently on waiting list for a liver transplant; 121,302 currently on the waiting list total. 3  Due to the organ shortage, over 6,000 precious lives are lost just in America each year. 4  In 2015, 359 liver transplants were made possible by living donors.