What we count
The number of whole-blood and blood-component donations reported by transfusion systems.
Blood donations this year
How many blood donations correspond to WHO's latest worldwide annual figure.
Continuously calculated
WORLDRelated numbers in context
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What lies behind this number
The number of whole-blood and blood-component donations reported by transfusion systems.
How the source derives it
The source combines national reporting, registries and surveys, using transparent statistical estimates where complete data are unavailable.
What one number cannot show
A donation is not a unique donor or a transfusion, and blood availability differs greatly between countries.
Source value
The calculation uses the latest published annual value from WHO Global status report on blood safety and availability 2025 for 2023.
How the value is used: The running number shows the share corresponding to time since the start of the year.
Annual value120,400,000donations
- Period
- 2023
- Status
- published
- Primary data source
- WHO Global status report on blood safety and availability 2025
How the number is calculated
We distribute the published annual value evenly across the elapsed share of the calendar year.
Formula used
V(t) = Vyear × elapsed share of the yearAnnual reference value120,400,0002023 · donations
Average per day329,644even time-based calculation
Calculation interval0.1 sContinuously calculated
Source value
WHO Global status report on blood safety and availability 2025 reports the latest published figure used on this page for 2023.
Calculation method
We distribute the published annual value evenly across the elapsed share of the calendar year.
Smooth display
The result is recalculated on screen every 0.1 seconds.
Where the data comes from
The source value comes from WHO Global status report on blood safety and availability 2025 and refers to 2023. It is the latest figure published by this source. The source combines national reporting, registries and surveys, using transparent statistical estimates where complete data are unavailable.
Latest published and verified source value
Primary data source
WHO Global status report on blood safety and availability 2025
Source edition: 2025
Open source ↗- Publisher
- WHO Global status report on blood safety and availability 2025
- Data period
- 2023
- Verified
- 15 August 2026
- Coverage
- Worldwide
- Use
- Even time-based calculation