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The number of Canadians receiving organ transplants rose from 1,473 in 1994 to 1,795 in 2003, says the Canadian Institute for Health Information. <p>The rate of organ donations from deceased patients in 2004 was 13.1 per million Canadians. Approximately 75 percent of transplanted organs in 2003 came from dead donors, compared to 86 percent in 1994. The average age of dead donors rose from 36 to 43, and the percentage of donors over 55 increased from 17 to 30. An average of 3.7 organs were collected from each donor, up from 3.5 in 1994. <p>There were 14.7 living donors per million people in 2004 and 41 percent of kidneys transplanted were from living donors. <p>There were 4,004 people in Canada waiting for an organ transplant at the end of 2004, an increase from 3,914 at the end of 2003. In 2004, 242 people in Canada died while awaiting organ transplants.