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Table 2.2

Deceased Donor Characteristics, 1998 to 2007

Kidney Donors

Donor Ethnicity/Race	Year
Donor Ethnicity/Race	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Total	5,339	5,386	5,489	5,528	5,638	5,753	6,325	6,700	7,181	7,245
White	4,074	4,077	4,170	4,092	4,116	4,081	4,455	4,630	4,919	4,922
African American	592	569	610	635	698	740	824	938	1,042	1,044
Other/Multi-race	9	21	16	17	38	34	49	66	47	70
Asian	110	136	132	143	120	144	153	141	177	176
Hispanic/Latino	519	565	559	637	662	738	844	925	996	1,033
Unknown	35	18	2	4	4	16	-	-	-	-
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
White	76.3%	75.7%	76.0%	74.0%	73.0%	70.9%	70.4%	69.1%	68.5%	67.9%
African American	11.1%	10.6%	11.1%	11.5%	12.4%	12.9%	13.0%	14.0%	14.5%	14.4%
Other/Multi-race	0.2%	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.7%	0.6%	0.8%	1.0%	0.7%	1.0%
Asian	2.1%	2.5%	2.4%	2.6%	2.1%	2.5%	2.4%	2.1%	2.5%	2.4%
Hispanic/Latino	9.7%	10.5%	10.2%	11.5%	11.7%	12.8%	13.3%	13.8%	13.9%	14.3%
Unknown	0.7%	0.3%	0.0%	0.1%	0.1%	0.3%	-	-	-	-

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 1, 2008.

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

(-) = None in category.

Includes donors of organs recovered for transplant and not used, as well as those transplanted.

Form changes on April 1, 1994 changed the way Cause of Death, Circumstance of Death, and Mechanism of Death were collected.

Donors are divided into four mutually exclusive and complete categories. All donors meeting the criteria for Expanded

Criteria Donors for Kidney are classified as ECD, regardless of whether the kidneys were allocated under the ECD system, falling into either the ECD or the ECD-DCD category. Non-ECDs include all other donors, including SCDs and "DCD non-ECDs".

Not all recovered organs are actually transplanted. Data tables pertaining to the recovery and disposition of organs are presented in Section 3, Deceased Donor Organ Recovery and Disposition.

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