Spain remains ahead of the world in transplants in 2014

Spain continues to lead the world in terms of the number of transplants performed and organs donated per capita according to the World Transplant Registry report published on Tuesday.

Of a total of 118,127 organ transplants carried out worldwide during 2014, (a three percent increase on 2013), 4,360 were carried out in Spain.

Spain also leads the world in its citizens' willingness to donate their organs, with 36 donors per million people. This figure is well above the European average of 19.6 per million and the U.S. average of 26.6.

In global terms, despite representing just 0.7 percent of the global population, Spain was responsible for 17 percent of the total number of organ donations carried out in Europe and six percent of those carried out in the world.

The year 2014 in Spain saw 2,678 kidney transplants, 1,068 liver transplants, 265 heart transplants, 262 lung transplants, as well as 81 pancreas transplants and six intestine transplants performed.

"For yet another year, it has been seen that in all of the parts of the world where the most significant increase has been seen, it has been where the Spanish model has been followed," Rafael Matesanz, the general director of the Spanish National Transplant Organization, told Spanish media. Endit