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. 2020 Aug 2;80:100876. doi: 10.1016/j.preteyeres.2020.100876

Table 1.

Reported numbers of Wait-lists in each country compared with the number of corneal transplanted cases.

Countries Numbers of patients in wait-list Transplanted cases Reported year ref
Australia 0 1096 2008 (Hara and Cooper, 2011)
Brazil 10,923 14,534 2018 (Almeida et al., 2018)
China 2,000,000 <8000 2017 (Wong et al., 2017)
India 7,000,000 25,000 2017 (Wong et al., 2017)
Japan 2769 1634 2008 (Hara and Cooper, 2011)
Korea 2184 322 2018a
South Africa 4300b 89 2017 (York and Tinley, 2017)
United Kingdom 500 2711 2008 (Hara and Cooper, 2011)
United States 0 41,652 2008 (Hara and Cooper, 2011)
a

Data from Korean Network for Organ Sharing © 2018 (11-1351155-000001-01).

b

Data from The Organ Donor Foundation of South Africa © 2019 (NPO/PBO Numbers 003–458 NPO PBO: 18/11/13/4).