France carried out more than 5,634 transplants in 2023, most often of the kidney, but also of the liver, or even the heart and lungs. More than 21,866 patients remain waiting for a transplant, including 11,422 who can be called immediately.
The rate of opposition to organ donation from relatives who died of brain death experienced a “significant increase” over one year (+9.4%), rising to 36.1%. Difficult to explain the rise in refusals, "multifactorial", according to the Biomedicine Agency.