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2025 Stats and Snacks
It was a record-breaking year for our donors and the numbers speak volumes.
There are more blood donors amongst the Aussie population this year than ever before: 580,324 of you to be precise. You life-giving legends donated more than 1.6 million times this year.
Thanks to you, 1,069,721 litres of blood have been donated for Australian patients. That’s 355,000 litres of whole blood, and 715,000 litres of plasma and platelets. Special shout out to the 3,794 litres of anti-D plasma from our special panel of 180 donors.
That's six minutes of average flow over Australia's tallest, permanent, single drop waterfalls — Wallaman Falls in Queensland. It would take just 36 seconds for this to flow over Barron Falls, Queensland — our country's highest flow waterfall.
If we liken donated blood to fuel (which, in a way, it is for the people who need it), more than a million litres is enough to fill 21,400 average car fuel tanks. Imagine the entire population of Traralgon, or Busselton, Caboolture, Goulburn, or Mount Gambier were to bowl up to the servo all at once. But with less road rage.
Blood donors are a group who hit the new year at a run, immediately making good on their new year’s resolutions. January 2025 was our biggest donation month ever, with 150,000+ donations.
Our milk donors are a small but mighty group, with 540 donors supplying 6,406 litres of donated breast milk for vulnerable babies at 38 hospitals across Australia.
14,435 people signed up to the Stem Cell Donor Registry, and we were flush with 34 generous microbiome donors.
Melbourne CBD and Town Hall in Sydney held onto the title of largest centres by collection volume, while Albany, Ballarat, Cairns, and Mackay exploded like popcorn in a hot pan. Each one was a regional centre that grew by at least 10%.
The all-important snack-off
Speaking of popcorn, donors enjoyed a snack or two this year.
In a fitting thank you for donating your life-giving good stuff, we’ve served up more than one million party pies, and 200,000 litres of flavoured milk. That's equivalent to the average annual household consumption of water.
Each donor had, on average, 1.9 party pies, 1.8 sausage rolls, 1.5 Nippy's, and 1.9 biscuits — topped off with three tablespoons of tomato sauce each. Probably not on the biscuits, but we’re not here to judge.
That puts party pies and sausage rolls (including vege and vegan options) neck and neck this year; 1,095,376 party pies vs 1,054,712 sausage rolls.
Once again, chocolate Nippy's was by far the national favourite, though some states (SA, WA, TAS) preferred coffee-flavoured as top choice.
And if milk isn't your cup of black tea, then consider our other drink options: 31,000 litres of kombucha, 320,000 litres of fruit juice, and 118,000 cups of tea have rehydrated thirsty donors in 2025.
Our donors dunked 1.13 million biscuits (including 396,000 Tim Tams), crunched through 689,100 crackers, and monstered 519,264 cookies in the last year. With a combined weight of 3.5 tons, that's the same as seven baby grand pianos.
Blood donors smeared, dribbled and dabbed more than 27,000 litres of tomato sauce on their snacks this year. That's 110 standard bathtubs, or the trays of 22 Ford Rangers.
All told, it’s been a year for the books; record books, history books, books read in the donor couch, and stories to be written by all those whose lives you’ve saved. Thank you, donors.
