Where patients live affects kidney transplant wait times

Organ procurement organizations (OPOs) connect organs from deceased donors with patients in need, starting with patients in their surrounding donation service areas. Their median transplant wait times vary, due in part to supply and demand. Dot size reflects each OPO's number of local kidney transplants.

Wait time and transplant data is from 2019 and provided by United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).
Map: The Conversation, CC-BY-ND Source: Tinglong Dai/Johns Hopkins University Get the data