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Table 2.9

Living Donor Characteristics, 1999 to 2008

Kidney Donors

Donor Blood Type	Year
Donor Blood Type	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total	4,725	5,499	6,041	6,240	6,473	6,647	6,571	6,435	6,044	5,968
A	1,273	1,428	1,563	1,639	1,647	1,732	1,761	1,690	1,629	1,561
AB	47	51	37	50	51	50	61	52	62	60
B	382	423	441	459	529	507	519	481	455	460
O	3,012	3,597	4,000	4,092	4,246	4,358	4,230	4,212	3,898	3,887
Unknown	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
A	26.9%	26.0%	25.9%	26.3%	25.4%	26.1%	26.8%	26.3%	27.0%	26.2%
AB	1.0%	0.9%	0.6%	0.8%	0.8%	0.8%	0.9%	0.8%	1.0%	1.0%
B	8.1%	7.7%	7.3%	7.4%	8.2%	7.6%	7.9%	7.5%	7.5%	7.7%
O	63.7%	65.4%	66.2%	65.6%	65.6%	65.6%	64.4%	65.5%	64.5%	65.1%
Unknown	0.2%	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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

(%) = 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 0.01 percent of the data.

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