A Review of Factors Influencing the Banking of Collected Umbilical Cord Blood Units

Table 1

Analysis of cord blood units released and exported from cord blood banks around the world.

Country	Inventory (2008)	Released (2008)	Exported
France	7051	212 (3.0%)	74 (1.0%)
Australia	20044	178 (0.9%)	133 (0.7%)
Germany	18557	127 (0.7%)	110 (0.6%)
Switzerland	2212	13 (0.6%)	13 (0.6%)
Belgium	14533	74 (0.5%)	68 (0.5%)
Italy	17503	141 (0.8%)	94 (0.5%)
USA	154749	1428 (0.9%)	512 (0.3%)
UK	10589	47 (0.4%)	37 (0.3%)
Spain	35802	179 (0.5%)	123 (0.3%)