According to an article in Nat Geo
1981 - first Lung transplant
2478 done in 2017, the 2018 wait list ii 1518.
But it gets worse, first heart 1968; 3273 in 2017,and a wait list of 4047.
The next worse is kidney 20,639 in 2017 and a wait list of 96,670
fyi
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