Organ Donors: Canadian Organ Replacement Register Data

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Query reference

PROC15 — Organ Donors

Sheet name

Canadian Organ Replacement Register (CORR) — Organ Donors by Type, Sex and Province of Donor Identification, Canada, 2013 to 2022 (Number)

Data source

Canadian Organ Replacement Register, Organ Donors, 2013 to 2022, Canadian Institute for Health Information.

Methodology notes

Data from Quebec was not included in this table because of significant under-reporting of donor data between 2012 and 2022.

Year refers to calendar year.

Province refers to the province of the hospital that identified the donor (for deceased donors) or to the hospital responsible for the transplant surgery (for living donors). New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador have organ donation organizations but do not have transplant hospitals and are therefore not shown in the living donor statistics.

Data quality notes

CORR is a longitudinal database, following patients over time. Reporting centres may submit changes/updates for any particular year on an ongoing basis. As a result, data is subject to change and may differ from previously published reports.

This data comes from donor-level data provided by organ donation organizations across the country. It may differ from the data provided in Summary statistics on organ transplants, wait-lists and donors, a report that is based on aggregate counts provided annually by organ donation organizations.

An overview of missing data can be found in Data Quality Documentation for Users: Canadian Organ Replacement Register, 2013 to 2022 Data (PDF).

Interpretation of data

Deceased Organ Donor: A person for whom neurological or cardiac death has been determined, consent has been obtained and organs are offered for transplantation. In CORR, deceased donors are defined as those who originated in Canada and who had at least one solid organ used for transplantation. Neurological determination of death (NDD) means that there is an irreversible absence of clinical neurological function as determined by definite clinical and/or neuro-imaging evidence. Non–heart beating donor refers to the donation of organs for transplantation from an individual who is declared dead after cardiac arrest; also known as “donation after cardiocirculatory death” (DCD). 

Living Organ Donor: A donor with a related or unrelated relationship to the transplant recipient. Living donors most commonly donate one of their kidneys. A lobe of the liver, a lobe of the lung, or a segment of the pancreas or the intestine may also be donated by a living donor. At the time of this report, living pancreas and intestine transplants had not been performed in Canada.

Contact details

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Last Updated: November 6, 2023

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