TABLE 1.

Total number of blood donors by country and year in Latin America from 1993 to 2002

Countrya	Total no. of donorsg in:
	1993-1995b	1997	1999	2001/2002
ARG	811,850c	742,330	810,259	804,018e
BOL	37,948	40,056	20,628	24,747e
BRA			1,663,857f	3,014,184
CHI	217,312	220,686	218,371	226,119
COL	352,316	422,300	353,991	424,899
COR	50,692	58,436	93,518	53,465
ECU	98,473d	110,619	103,448	76,257
ELS	48,048	34,091	67,224	73,594
GUT	45,426		31,939	71,959
HON	27,885	27,963	40,933	40,755
MEX			1,092,741	1,027,253
NIC	46,001	46,539	45,000	48,921
PAN	26,333d	42,342	43,921	42,867
PAR	32,893d	39,904	45,597	45,533e
PER		203,690	311,550	149,077
URU	110,309d	115,490	116,626	101,669
VEN	204,316	262,295	302,100	369,440

^aArgentina (ARG), Bolivia (BOL), Brazil (BRA), Chile (CHI), Colombia (COL), Costa Rica (COR), Ecuador (ECU), El Salvador (ELS), Guatemala (GUT), Honduras (HON), Mexico (MEX), Nicaragua (NIC), Panama (PAN), Paraguay (PAR), Peru (PER), Uruguay (URU), Venezuela (VEN).

^bAll data from 1993 unless otherwise specified.

^cData from 1995.

^dData from 1994.

^eData from Argentina, Bolivia, and Panama from 2001; all the other countries from 2002.

^fBlood donors from the public sector only.

^gBold type indicates baseline data for the country, i.e., the first time nationwide information was available.