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Table 12.1a

Waiting List Patient Characteristics at End of Year

Lung Waiting List

Active Waitlist Patients, 1999 to 2008

Ethnicity/Race	Year
Ethnicity/Race	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total	2,429	2,484	2,417	2,281	2,315	2,163	1,052	1,031	1,006	1,089
White	2,078	2,098	2,022	1,896	1,935	1,801	899	881	840	891
African American	236	242	241	224	219	213	78	84	92	111
Other/Multi-race	5	5	6	8	12	12	10	6	5	5
Asian	28	35	35	41	32	23	14	12	15	15
Hispanic/Latino	82	104	113	109	117	114	51	48	54	67
Unknown	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
White	85.5%	84.5%	83.7%	83.1%	83.6%	83.3%	85.5%	85.5%	83.5%	81.8%
African American	9.7%	9.7%	10.0%	9.8%	9.5%	9.8%	7.4%	8.1%	9.1%	10.2%
Other/Multi-race	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.6%	1.0%	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%
Asian	1.2%	1.4%	1.4%	1.8%	1.4%	1.1%	1.3%	1.2%	1.5%	1.4%
Hispanic/Latino	3.4%	4.2%	4.7%	4.8%	5.1%	5.3%	4.8%	4.7%	5.4%	6.2%
Unknown	-	-	-	0.1%	-	-	-	-	-	-

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 4, 2009.

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

(-) = None in category.

Includes patients listed as active status at end of year.

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