FDA Consumer magazine
July-August 2000

A chart titled Donors in the National Marrow Donor Program (1987-2000) shows the progression in the number of donors. The chart is a bar chart and shows the number of donors in the years; i.e., 1987 (9,234 donors), 1988 (20,409 donors), 1989 (62,451 donors), 1990 (219,530 donors), 1991 (467,934 donors), 1992 (740,906 donors), 1993 (1,115,948 donors), 1994 (1,498,641 donors), 1995 (1,946,824 donors), 1996 (2,584,956 donors), 1997 (3,035,893 donors), 1998 (3,482,487 donors), 1999 (3,849,149 donors), and as of March 2000 (3,939,064 donors). The source of this data is from the National Marrow Donor Program.