Overview
- Health Ministry and ONT data show 6,335 transplants in 2025 supported by 2,547 deceased donors, a rate of 51.9 per million people.
- Donation after circulatory death reached 1,416 donors, accounting for 56% of all donors, enabled by Spain’s ECMO-based preservation protocols.
- Heart transplants rose 12% to 390, with about 35% sourced from circulatory-death donors, while liver and lung procedures declined versus 2024.
- Regional tallies underscore breadth of activity, including Galicia’s record 429 transplants and Catalonia’s 1,356 procedures with strong kidney and lung programs.
- Operational capacity stood out as Madrid’s Hospital 12 de Octubre completed four heart transplants in 63 hours, three using circulatory-death donors.