Hamburg Has the Highest Value of Organ Donors in Germany

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Hamburg is the country's leading organ donor: 35 donors per million inhabitants – which means that the Hanseatic city is well above the federal average.

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Saxony – 342 people are currently waiting for a donor organ in Saxony. This is shown by current figures from the German Organ Transplantation Foundation (DSO). In the first five months of this year, 36 people donated organs after their death – four more than in the comparable period of 2025. Thus, the Free State comes to 21.6 organ donors per million inhabitants and is in second place nationwide behind Hamburg (35.0). Germany-wide, the average w…

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Hamburg (dpa/lno) – In Hamburg, the majority of organ donors live in the Federal Republic of Germany. This is shown by current figures published by the German Organ Transplantation Foundation (DSO) on 6 June on the occasion of the Organ Donation Day. According to this, 35.0 organ donors in the Hanseatic city number one million inhabitants. The German average is 13.1 organ donors to one million. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is 18.5, Schleswig-Holstein …