Background:

Kidney transplant (KT) is the most common solid organ transplantation in the world.

Objective:

To analyze the information from Mexico on KT, waiting lists (WL) and patients on dialysis between 2012 and 2019 and compare that of 2019 with those of the countries of the American Continent, Spain and Portugal.

Material and methods:

The required information was obtained from the Global Observatory on Organ Donation and Transplantation (GODT).

Results:

Between 2012 and 2019, the annual number of kidney transplants (KTs) in Mexico increased by 12.5%, while the WL by December 31 of each year did it by 86.1%. In 2019, Spain and the US reported the highest KT rates, while Mexico ranked 8th in the Pan-American and Iberian comparison, 6th in the American Continent and 4th in Latin America. Mexico did not report to GODT the number of patients on dialysis in 2019 and 2018.

Conclusions:

KTs should be considered an integral part of renal replacement therapies. The GODT reports include the numbers of patients on dialysis for each country. Mexico does not always report this data, probably due to the lack of a national registry of chronic kidney disease, the creation of which should be supported.