Study: Americans Are the Most Generous People in the World

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stadium-crowd-gets-patriotic-with-huge-american-flag-displayAmericans: the most generous people in the world. In this season of giving, that’s no idle gloat.

According to a new study, the United States tops a massive global charity survey, rising from fifth place in 2010.

The “World Giving Index,” based on 150,000 interviews with citizens of 153 nations, ranks the U.S. highest on a scale that weighed monetary donations, volunteer work and willingness to help out a stranger.

“In spite of economic hardships and uncertainty in the future, the American spirit is caring and strong, as these survey findings clearly show,” said David Venne, interim CEO of CAFAmerica, the Virginia-based charities consultant that released the results of the index.

Ireland placed second, followed by Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Canada, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Laos.

At the bottom of the list: China, Russia and India.

The survey, relying on data from the Gallup polling organization, asked whether people had donated money (two-thirds of Americans), volunteered their time (43 percent) or helped a stranger in the preceding month (73 percent).

The survey’s authors noted that charitable behavior is not correlated with wealth. Of the 20 countries that the World Bank ranks richest by gross domestic product, only five made it into the top 20 of the index.

This is the second year the index has been published by British-based Charities Aid Foundation. Compared with 2010, monetary donations fell, but more people reported volunteering and helping strangers.

{Salt Lake Tribune/Matzav.com Newscenter}


6 COMMENTS

  1. Study, shmudy. The most generous and kindest people in the world are the Jews, especially religious Jews and particularly chareidim. Israel can therefore be considered the most generous country in the world.

  2. America might have the most money and willing to share it, but it’s the Jews who share and do for others with the little bit they have.

  3. Americans are very probably the most generous people in the world, both as a nation and as individuals.

    The Marshall Aid program was, perhaps, the most magnanimous and generous gesture made by a victorious nation towards the vanquished nations after the second World War.

    As for individual generosity, I shall always be in eternal debt towards a certain New York Jew who unstintingly assisted my family and me, over several years, at a time of very acute economic hardship on our part. He asked for no return whatsoever, and it is because of him that my family and I are alive today.

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