{"id":1470276,"date":"2024-06-09T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1470276"},"modified":"2024-06-09T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T16:45:00","slug":"the-global-gulf-in-organ-donation-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-global-gulf-in-organ-donation-rates\/1470276\/","title":{"rendered":"The Global Gulf In Organ Donation Rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">The Global Gulf In Organ Donation Rates<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transplant-observatory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/NEWSLETTER-2023-baja.pdf\">Data<\/a>\u00a0from the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Health Care (EDQM) shows that<strong> Spain came out on top for the highest rates of organ donors in 2022, with 47 deceased donors per million population<\/strong>, respectively.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chart\/27492\/deceased-organ-donors-by-country\/\" title=\"Infographic: The Global Gulf in Organ Donation Rates | Statista\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/chartoftheday\/\">Statista<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This high rate is often linked to its opt-out system. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Or, in other words, when someone dies, the <strong>default will be to donate their organs where possible<\/strong>, unless the person had specifically turned down the option of a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/topics\/2389\/organ-donations-and-transplants\/#dossierContents__outerWrapper\">transplant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Relatives can also usually reject the process if they say the deceased person would not have wanted it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The United States\u2019 organ donation rate is 44.5 deceased donors per million population. This is perhaps more surprising, given that it has an opt-in system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In its case though, the barrier for registration is relatively low, as in most states, you can register to be a donor when applying for or renewing a driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>This is a fairly logical, if macabre, step, considering the grim reality that <strong>one third of organ donations in the U.S. come from people who have been in fatal vehicle accidents,<\/strong> according to the United Network for Organ Sharing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sun, 06\/09\/2024 &#8211; 08:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/global-gulf-organ-donation-rates\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/medical\/global-gulf-organ-donation-rates<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Global Gulf In Organ Donation Rates Data\u00a0from the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines and Health Care (EDQM) shows that Spain came out&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1470277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-6au8","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/27492-5WWWzk.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}