BEIJING: More than 18,000 people on the Chinese mainland donated organs after death between 2015 and last year, with the number of donors more than doubled every year during the period, according to a report released Saturday (Dec 7).
Last year, 6,302 people made deceased donations, compared with 2,766 in 2015, ranking second in the world. The number of donors per million people increased from 2.01 in 2015 to 4.53 last year, according to the report released by the China Organ Transplantation Development Foundation.
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