Renal Statistics

Source - 2019 ANZDATA report

This includes patients on dialysis and with a functioning kidney transplant

There were 4812 people receiving some form of renal replacement therapy (RRT) at 31st Dec 2018
Of these 1966 had a functioning kidney transplant and 2846 were receiving dialysis treatment

619 people commenced RRT in New Zealand in 2018.
There were 2846 dialysis patients in 2018 which has increased a bit compared to previous years.
47% of all new patients had diabetic nephropathy attributed as their cause of end stage renal disease, 18% had glomerulonephritis and 7% hypertension.

Together, hospital haemodialysis and satellite dialysis accounted for 1556 of patients in 2018. Satellite haemodialysis 500patients, with 1056 receiving haemodialysis in a hospital.
There were patients receiving 422 Home Haemodialysis treatment in total 868 patient received PD treatment in 2018.
There were 580 patients who received dialysis for the first time in 2018

The number of transplant operations (182) performed in 2018
In New Zealand the number of kidney transplants in 2018 was 182 - 84 were live donor transplants and from 98 deceased donors
The longest surviving kidney transplant was 42 years as at December 31st 2015. There were 168 kidney transplants functioning for more than 20 years and 30 kidney transplants functioning for more than 30 year

The kidneys have a higher blood flow than even the brain, liver or heart.
The kidneys reabsorb and redistribute 99% of the blood volume and only 0.1% of the blood filtered becomes urine.
Each kidney is about 4½ inches (11.4 cm) long.
Each kidney weighs approximately 170gms and is the size of your fist.
The kidneys of a newborn baby are about 3X larger in proportion to body weight as in the adult.
The volume of urine excreted daily varies from 1000 to 2000 ml (averaging 1500 ml).
What year was the first successful kidney transplant? (1954 with identical twins in the US)
Your kidneys represent about 0.5% of the total weight of the body, but receive 20–25% of the total arterial blood pumped by the heart.
Your kidneys receive about 56 litres of blood per hour.
Over 1.8 litres of recycled blood is pumped through your kidneys every day.
Each kidney contains approximately one million nephrons
Placed end to end, the nephrons of one kidney would stretch about 8 km