We are responsible for collecting and reporting data on the performance of Australia’s national program for coordinating organ and tissue donation for transplantation.

Our data is routinely analysed to inform discussions with our DonateLife teams and relevant state and territory health departments to make ongoing improvements in practice. This includes continuing to evolve our dashboard reporting to drive clinical best practice across DonateLife hospitals and provide further opportunities for growth in donation and transplantation.

An ongoing priority for us is to expand the breadth of data and increasing data analytics and reporting to inform decision making and drive improvements to support the donation, retrieval and transplantation sector to save and improve the lives of more Australians.

We work closely with Australian donation and transplant outcomes registries to ensure accurate data on donation and transplant activity is available to clinical stakeholders and the general public. These registries include:

• Australia and New Zealand Organ Donation Registry (ANZOD)
• Australia and New Zealand Dialysis and Transplant Registry (ANZDATA)
• Australia and New Zealand Liver and Intestinal Transplant Registry (ANZLITR)
• Australia and New Zealand Islet and Pancreas Transplant Registry (ANZIPTR)
• Australian Corneal Graft Registry (ACGR)

Annual outcomes

Early each year, we release our annual data outcomes and publish a donation and transplantation activity report for the previous calendar year.

2020 outcomes

2020 was a challenging year for the national program, with COVID-19 having a direct impact on organ and tissue donation and transplant programs in Australia. Our DonateLife teams worked hard with transplant teams to navigate the challenges facing our hospitals and with logistics — including with COVID-19 restrictions, flight reductions and border closures — so that patients received the best possible outcomes.

Explore the data in the 2020 Australian Donation and Transplantation Activity Report:

• 2020 at a glance
• deceased organ donation and transplantation data
• consent data
• registration data
• living organ donation and transplantation data
• eye and tissue donation and transplantation data

You can also read our news story about the release of the activity report. 

Resources 

Our 2020 data report and fact sheets are available to download:

• 2020 Australian Donation and Transplantation Activity Report (1.3 MB PDF)
• 2020 deceased organ donation and transplantation data (307KB PDF)
• Organ and tissue donation opt-in opt-out consent systems (381KB PDF)
• 2020 organ donation is a rare event (202 KB PDF)

2019

The data available for 2019 is:

• 2019 donation and transplantation activity report (1.2MB PDF)
• 2019 deceased organ donation and transplantation (216KB PDF)
• 2019 living organ donation and transplantation (172KB PDF)
• 2019 eye and tissue donation and transplantation (246KB PDF)
• 2019 organ donation is a rare event (191KB PDF)
• 2019 increasing family consent to donation (175KB PDF)

2018

The data available for 2018 is:

• 2018 donation and transplantation activity report (1.1MB PDF)
• 2018 deceased organ donation and transplantation (416KB PDF)
• 2018 living donation and transplantation (184KB PDF)
• 2018 eye and tissue donation and transplantation (359KB PDF)

2017

The data available for 2017 is:

• 2017 donation and transplantation activity report (1.8MB PDF)
• 2017 deceased organ donation and transplantation (159KB PDF)
• 2017 living donation and transplantation (259KB PDF)
• 2017 eye and tissue donation and transplantation outcomes (178KB PDF)
• 2017 reasons why consented donors do not proceed to donation (133KB PDF)
• 2017 patients listed for solid organ transplantation (291KB PDF)

2016

The data available for 2016 is:

• 2016 donation and transplantation activity report (891KB PDF)
• 2016 patients listed for solid organ transplantation (147KB PDF)

2015

The data available for 2015 is:

• 2015 donation and transplantation activity report (1.1MB PDF)

2014

The data available for 2014 is:

• 2014 donation and transplantation performance report (1.2MB PDF)

2013

The data available for 2013 is:

• 2013 donation and transplantation performance report (1.2MB PDF)