Number of Donors After Brain Deaths in Japan, 1996-2015
In 2015, 58 persons donated their organs after the brain deaths. 4 of them were under 15 year-old kids.
Since 2010, if the family member agrees, donation is allowed without the dead person's own explicit consent. 34 brain dead persons donated organs under their family's acceptance.
The following data show the changes in the number of donors after the brain deaths between 1996 and 2015.
| Year | Donation with own explicit consent | Donation with family acceptance | Donation from under 15 year-old kids |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1999 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2001 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2002 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 2003 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 2004 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2005 | 9 | 0 | 0 |
| 2006 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
| 2007 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2008 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 4 | 28 | 0 |
| 2011 | 10 | 33 | 1 |
| 2012 | 11 | 33 | 1 |
| 2013 | 18 | 27 | 2 |
| 2014 | 13 | 35 | 2 |
| 2015 | 20 | 34 | 4 |
Source is a leaflet ”Inochi no okurimono" published by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare、2016, Feb. いのちの贈りもの
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