The United States has been consistently rated as the most generous (per capita) country over the course of the last decade. But that recognition comes with a pretty large asterisk. In recent years the number of people who report giving money to charity annually has been declining. Overall, 58% of Americans typically reported doing something generous when polled annually over the last 10 years, according to the data from the World Giving Index of global generosity, placing the United States just ahead of Myanmar, New Zealand, Australia, and Ireland, which round out the top five and were all within two percentage points.
The World Giving Index is based on Gallup surveys and compiled by Charities Aid Foundation, a group that works to find strategic ways to boost giving.it includes representative and consistent responses from roughly 1.3 million people across 128 countries.These findings were based primarily on one thing: a question about whether, within the last month, those surveyed had done one or more of the following: helped a stranger, donated money, or volunteered time to an organization. For the purposes of measuring generosity, all of those things were weighted equally.
In the United States, roughly 7 in 10 people consistently reported helping others: 6 in 10 gave cash, and 4 in 10 offered time. But other places prioritize differently. In Myanmar, for instance, the average number of people making donations was higher, probably because the prevailing Buddhist culture encourages that. In New Zealand, meanwhile, the proportion of people giving money and helping strangers was more equal.
The index indicates which countries have been rising fastest in their charitable scores and it points out that half of the countries in the top 10 are within Asia, with another three in Africa.
The places with the lowest scores are often dealing with troubling governmental and social upheavals: China, Greece, Yemen, Serbia, and Palestine, where fewer than 20% of all people have either the ability or are empowered enough to perform philanthropic-minded deeds.
Ghana Rising Profiles In World Giving Index in Africa
Ghana has been ranked the seventh most charitable country in Africa and 38th in the world according to the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)’s World Giving Index. The most charitable country on the continent was Kenya, which was ranked 11th followed by Liberia 17th, Sierra Leone 20th, Nigeria 22nd, Zambia 32nd, Uganda 35th and Malawi 36th.
In the category of helping strangers Liberia came up tops in Africa.
They were surveyed over a period of time that included the depths of the financial crisis and its fallout, brighter times as the global economy began to bounce back and into more recent moments of geopolitical unrest.
BY BINNABOOK PUBLISHERS
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