- An average of 16 people per day (or 5,840 per year) die due to a lack of available organs    for transplant.

- More than 71,000 men, women and children currently await life saving/enhancing   transplants.

 - Every 14 minutes another name is added to the national waiting list.  That's 103 people    in one 24 hour period (37,595 every year).