Table 2.9

Living Donor Characteristics, 1993 to 2002

Kidney Donors

Donor Blood Type	Year
	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Total	2,851	3,009	3,388	3,666	3,928	4,400	4,670	5,427	6,002	6,233
O	1,731	1,830	2,092	2,386	2,475	2,841	2,979	3,550	3,974	4,041
A	830	901	972	931	1,076	1,156	1,257	1,409	1,551	1,691
B	252	254	282	309	342	331	377	417	439	449
AB	23	24	41	40	35	54	45	51	38	52
Unknown	15	-	1	-	-	18	12	-	-	-
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
O	60.7%	60.8%	61.7%	65.1%	63.0%	64.6%	63.8%	65.4%	66.2%	64.8%
A	29.1%	29.9%	28.7%	25.4%	27.4%	26.3%	26.9%	26.0%	25.8%	27.1%
B	8.8%	8.4%	8.3%	8.4%	8.7%	7.5%	8.1%	7.7%	7.3%	7.2%
AB	0.8%	0.8%	1.2%	1.1%	0.9%	1.2%	1.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.8%
Unknown	0.5%	-	0.0%	-	-	0.4%	0.3%	-	-	-

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of August 1, 2003.

(%) = Percentages are calculated based on totals including missing and unknown cases.

(-) = None in category.

Living donor ages reported as 10 years or less are included in "Unknown", accounting for about 0.2 percent of the data.