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Table 1 Overview of liver transplant centers per federal states and the number of transplants per million

From: Volume and outcome relation in German liver transplant centers: what lessons can be learned?

Federal State Population in Million LTx programs LTx (Living donor liver transplants excluded) LTx/Million people/number of centers
2011 2010 2009
Bavaria 12.6 5 (4 in 2009) (Munich (2), Regensburg, Erlangen, Würzburg) 156 166 152 2.7
Baden-Wuertemberg 10.8 2 (Heidelberg, Tübingen) 134 135 145 6.5
Berlin e /Brandenburg f 6.0 1 (Charité Berlin) 93 102 116 17.3
Hesse 6.1 1 (Frankfurt/Main) 29 46 37 6.1
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1.6 1 (Rostock) 5 5 0 2.1
Lower Saxony b /Bremen a 7.9 2 (Hannover, Göttingen) 112 145 139 8.4
Northrhine Westfalia 17.8 5 (4 in 2009) (Essen, Aachen, Münster, Cologne, Bonn) 260 230 214 2.8
Rhineland-Palatinate 4.0 1 (Mainz) 43 43 42 10.8
Saarland 1.0 1 (Homburg) 15 31 9 18.0
Saxony 4.1 1 (Leipzig) 97 85 79 21.2
Saxony-Anhalt 2.3 1 (Magdeburg) 20 19 7 6.5
Schleswig-Holstein d /Hamburg c 4.6 2 (Hamburg, Kiel) 118 107 125 12.7
Thuringia 2.2 1 (Jena) 49 56 47 23.2
  1. People per number of transplant centers for each individual state/region in Germany. Bremena, having no own medical faculty was added to Lower Saxonyb. Hamburgc and Schleswig Holsteind as well as Berline and Brandenburgf were combined to one major region each.